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Modify Alfred to search Brave Browser instead of Chrome for "Web Bookmarks"


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I use Brave Browser instead of Chrome. Every time i check the "Search Chrome Bookmarks" box it unchecks itself.

 

Is there anyway to modify/remap Alfred so that it sees my Brave Browser as Chrome? I prefer not to keep a copy of Chrome just so Alfred can search my bookmarks. Without it the box unchecks itself and makes the feature unusable.

 

I would like the option to have Brave Browser as a 3rd option in Alfred.

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26 minutes ago, GatorMapi said:

I use Brave Browser instead of Chrome. Every time i check the "Search Chrome Bookmarks" box it unchecks itself.

 

Is there anyway to modify/remap Alfred so that it sees my Brave Browser as Chrome? I prefer not to keep a copy of Chrome just so Alfred can search my bookmarks. Without it the box unchecks itself and makes the feature unusable.

 

I would like the option to have Brave Browser as a 3rd option in Alfred.

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After having searched around a found a workaround to emulate Firefox's 'search tabs' and 'search history' feature with 2 workflows

 

To emulate Firefox's history search feature '^' I used this workflow and swapped 'bh' with ^

https://github.com/Acidham/chromium-hist-bookmarks

 

To emulate Firefox's tab search feature '%' I used this workflow and changed 'brave tabs' to %

https://github.com/epilande/alfred-browser-tabs

 

These two workflows make more sense than downloading Chrome just to have Alfred's bookmark search ability or use Applescript to copy a Brave bookmark into Chrome.

 

Finally I disabled the "Web Bookmarks" feature in Alfred because the workflows do the job

 

Hope this helps other =)

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