Help syncing bookmarks between Brave and Firefox using Floccus + Google Drive

[ccolemanalt]

Hi, I recently switched to Floccus after xBrowserSync stopped working. I’m using both Brave and Firefox (for different reasons I won’t go into here), and I’ve read through the Guide and FAQs. However, it’s not clear how to properly set up sync between two browsers. The documentation seems to focus on syncing just one.

Here’s what I’m doing:

1. In Brave, I create an account and sync it to Google Drive. This creates a file in Drive named Brave_bookmarks.xbel.

2. I go to Firefox and expect to import that same file so the bookmarks mirror each other.

3. When using the import/export option, it defaults to importing a JSON file. I can switch to XBEL and select the Brave file, but nothing happens.

4. The only other option seems to be creating a new profile in Firefox, which then creates a new XBEL file in Drive. This still doesn’t show bookmarks from Brave, and vice versa.

I thought Floccus was designed to sync bookmarks across browsers using a shared file, so both browsers stay in sync. Am I misunderstanding how profiles or file access works with Floccus?

Is this expected behavior, or am I missing a step somewhere?

Any clarification would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

Chris

[marcelklehr]

Hi Chris!
Great question! The idea is that floccus syncs by reading and writing the XBEL file (or HTML file) automatically. The import and export functionality is not for XBEL files or bookmarks at all, but it is for profiles.
After having created a profile in one browser, you can go to Import/export and first export the profiles of the current browser into a JSON file, then bring that file somehow (possibly via google drive, or via USB stick or email) to your other browser and import it there to recreate the profile on the other browser. The import and export functionality is merely to ease people's lives, you can also simply create a completely new profile on the second browser and it would work just fine.

I hope this clears things up. Let me know if you have more questions :)

Cheers!

[ccolemanalt]

That does clear things up, thank you!