1. Advanced Cookie Management (Live Monitoring & Control)
Goal: Full transparency and control over active, inactive, and potentially dangerous cookies – all accessible in a clear and structured UI.
Suggestions:
• Live display of active cookies at brave://cookies/active or via @cookies in the settings.
• Color-coded status indicators:
◦ Active cookies: currently running in the background – e.g. trackers or login states.
◦ Website-only cookies: e.g. Google Docs extension only at docs.google.com.
◦ Manually activated cookies via extensions: e.g. password managers.
◦ Inactive or outdated cookies: not used for a long time or broken.
• Table with cookie details:
◦ Website, creation date, last access, expiration
◦ Permissions (e.g. camera, location, microphone, popups)
• Marking of potentially dangerous cookies:
◦ Cookies with many unusual permissions
◦ Cookies referencing known tracker or malware domains (Brave Shield integration)
◦ Visual cue via “!” icon or red outline
Extra idea: Option to “freeze” cookies (temporarily disable), grouped by site or domain, and export them as a backup.
2. Advanced Bookmark Manager (Bookmark Power-Tools)
Goal: Optimized handling of large bookmark collections without performance issues.
Suggestions:
• Configurable bookmark cache size:
◦ Choose how many bookmarks to preload at startup
◦ Lazy-loading of folders on demand
• Customizable CPU core usage:
◦ Example: Allow only 4 threads for bookmark parsing on systems with 16
◦ OS-aware optimization (Linux may outperform Windows here)
• “Cleaner” tool for redundant folders:
◦ Detect empty or duplicate folders and offer deletion
• Smart sorting:
◦ By visit frequency, alphabetical, last used, or by domain
• Export specific folders as JSON or HTML, e.g. for archiving old projects
Fast-Sync-Share: Smarter Brave Synchronization
Goal: More overview and flexibility when syncing multiple devices with Brave.
Suggestions:
• Display last activity of connected devices:
◦ “Smartphone – last active: 3 hours ago”
◦ “Laptop – last active: yesterday, 8:47 PM”
• QR code sharing for sync chain:
◦ Generate on desktop and scan with phone
◦ Or create on phone and scan with a laptop
• Manage existing devices in sync chain:
◦ Remove, disable, or limit permissions (e.g. “Sync bookmarks only”)
• Sync groups with custom settings:
◦ e.g. Group “Work” syncs passwords & bookmarks only
◦ Group “Personal” syncs everything including themes & extensions