Search suggestions at various websites often make suggestions as you start to type. These are based on your most commonly used search words.
When sharing a screen in Zoom, I don’t want my search history revealed whenever I use a search bar at a website.
To disable this feature, I went to Settings>Autofill and Passwords>Addresses and More, and then turned off “Save and Fill Addresses”.
Nb: this is different from the Brave settings “autofill in address bar”, which has a different way to turn on or off.
Brave version on a Mac running OS 14 Sonoma: v1.60.110 (Nov 2, 2023)
@energyguru ,
opened 07:54PM - 28 Jul 23 UTC
privacy
design/needs-mock-up
priority/P2
feature/autofill
OS/Android
OS/Desktop
By default, the toggle in `brave://settings/addresses` is enabled:
https://fmarier.org/test/autofill.html shows two different ways that this feature works:
1. *Incomplete address form*: not all of the fields are present and so the individual components will be saved in the browser (hidden, can't see or delete them individually) **without a prompt**.
2. *Complete address form*: all of the fields are present and a prompt will be shown before the complete address is saved and visible in `brave://settings/addresses`:
If *denied*, the full address is not saved, but **the individual components are still saved** just as in the previous case (invisibly and without the user's knowledge).
The only indication that portions of an address are saved is in `brave://settings/clearBrowserData` (see _Auto-fill form data_) where all of the data for all sites can be deleted at once:
It's also possible to mouse over an element and then hit `Ctrl+shift+Del` (`Shift+Fn+Del` on Mac) to delete it from the local auto-fill database.
Note that nothing new is recorded in private windows, but the existing saved auto-fill info is available to be auto-filled in private browsing windows too (brave/brave-browser#9795).
The behavior is the same on desktop and Android, as well as in Chrome and Firefox.
For now, you can remove individual autofill/complete suggestions by using the arrow keys to highlight it, then pressing Shift + Fn + Delete.
Shift+Fn+Delete is much better, disabling address feature in settings worked as well, but I’m grateful that I can turn it back on and use your approach.
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PS: Using the Shift+Fn+Delete approach requires deleting each word one-by-one.
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December 8, 2023, 8:01pm
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