Tab favicons are too small with these dumb circles. Eg: 
This forum topic suggests there’s a flag brave://flags/#memory-saver-discarded-tab-treatment
but this flag has disappeared in newly upgraded version: 1.64.109
Any ideas? The quantity of forum topics about this suggests these circles should be disabled by default when memory saver is on. Most Brave users shouldn’t care whether tabs are inactive, as long as their machine doesn’t crash due to high memory consumption.
Flag exists on another machine of mine running Brave 1.63.174, but downgrading to it doesn’t reinstate. Must be some other underlying expiry of this flag that has kicked in.
Agreed - the favicons end up being so small as to be unrecognizable, often. I like the idea of expired tabs, but please let’s find other ways of showing it, or have the option of not showing it.
“downgrading to it doesn’t reinstate” - I don’t think I downgraded correctly. I just tried again, uninstalled 1.64.109 and installed 1.63.174 using:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.63.174/BraveBrowserStandaloneSetup.exe
and brave://flags/#memory-saver-discarded-tab-treatment is back. Set to disable, and no more illegible tab icons 
Just have to hope Brave doesn’t auto-upgrade. Wonder if there’s a way to prevent…
“Wonder if there’s a way to prevent…”. On Windows can disable the Brave Update Service. Brave still nags you to update on exit, choose no. Set a reminder in some months to re-enable this service, hopefully by then there’ll be a proper way to remove these janky inactive circles.
I’m from the other thread-- I don’t want circles, I want visible favicos. 
At firs: I would never recommend disabling the automatic update service. Instead, talk to people here in the forum, maybe you and others can make a change for the next update.
Back to topic:
Can you try to update your browser to the newest version?
On my machine, I use a Fedora Linux 39 with brave version Version 1.64.113 Chromium: 123.0.6312.86 (Official Build) (64-bit) installed. The only website I recognized those circled favicons is the https://search.brave.com.
On other websites I see the favicons in full size no matter if it’s round, a square or something else.
If I misunderstood your situation, please don’t hesitate to push me in the right direction.
Examples:
Only exception here is brave search as mentioned above.
They’re probably not inactive @LxWulf. Don’t touch Brave for a couple of hours and you’ll see them unless you have brave://flags/#memory-saver-discarded-tab-treatment disabled.
Okay, I can confirm this. Despite that, I don’t see that big of a problem here, also there is already a solution to it if you disable the memory function. You don’t need to set the flag.
Go to brave settings → System (No.1) and then the last entry you see, is the Perfomance settings.
For sure, you can go directly to the setting with
brave://settings/system
There, you can disable the Memory Saver function (No.2) or adding your favorite websites to the whitelist (No.3), so those websites never go into the inactive state.
Reference:
I admire your positivity LxWulf, but we aren’t all blessed with an abundance of memory, or a rigorous discipline to avoid using many tabs.
Thank you. 
I do understand. Despite, I do not have any hope that this changes soon, but you can still move your post to the Feature Request section here or create a new one there.
Steps if you want to move your post:
edit pen at the end of your post title.Brave Feature Requests Desktop Requeststags on the right side of the topic selection.
browser tag you need to remove.Notice:
If you decide to create a new post do not forget to mark this post as “solved” and maybe add the link to the new post if you want, you don’t need to do this though.
These “circles” are deal breaker for me. They punish people keeping many tabs open.
It looks like we’ll likely get this flag from Chromium down the line — Google just put it into Canary:
I’m really hoping for a solution to this. I have to click a bunch of tabs to ‘wake’ them just to see which tab is the one I want. Looks like that Chromium Canary thing is going to make it look even worse!
adding a +1 in case this thread expires before we get an (actual) solution 
Keeping this open-- I have turned off memory saver and it’s awful. I just want to see the favicos.
The youtube channel BrenTech covers large and small changes to Windows and several browsers. A few days ago it showed a new settings option in Chrome which enables the dotted icons we see in Brave. There is mention elsewhere online of the dotted icons back in May, so it might be that the code was added to Chromium back then and Brave devs chose to use it whereas Chrome devs held back for a while. I can’t find anything in brave://flags that looks like it would turn the effect off, but the new settings option coming to Chrome suggests we will soon be able to.
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZrtKutzNfQ
Screenshot:
I believe we will be getting this feature and I think you can test it now with the flag:
brave://flags/#discard-ring-improvements
It’s an improvement @Mattches, but favicons are still smaller:
: Google favicon mem-saved without discard-ring-improvements option
: Google favicon mem-saved with discard-ring-improvements option
: Google favicon
People like us simply don’t care whether tabs have been mem-saved. Don’t need denoting at all. Period. There should be an option to remove the circles completely as was the case prior to the removal of brave://flags/#memory-saver-discarded-tab-treatment.
We get it, chromium devs have created a smart new feature: Memory Saving, there’s no need to ram it down our eye-balls and make identifying tabs more difficult!
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll let the team know but would not expect an issue like this to be prioritized.
Further, looking at the icons, they actually appear to be almost the same size as they are normally with the discard-ring-improvements flag enabled. I can try and do an accurate size comparison later today when I have some time.
