Save settings for search.brave.com

Sadly this here is still a problem. This worked for a while now it seems not to work anymore.

Why do we not have a good possibility to save the settings from search.brave.com it does not make any sense to me why this is not implemented from the beginning and less why not now…?

We need to fiddle around with save cookies for this website, but be careful if you set to delete the cookies on exit. It gets also deleted, but not if you set option x or y and so on and so forth….

Anyway, what is the new updated way to save cookies only for search.brave.com but with the option to delete it for everything else?


Description of the issue:

There is no (obvious) option to save cookies for one specific website or save settings for search.brave.com.

Brave Version (check About Brave):

Version 1.71.114 Chromium: 130.0.6723.58 (Official Build) (64-bit) (Linux version)

Operating System:

Windows 10 and above but also for Linux (Fedora Linux 40 in my case)

So you want to save cookies and site data for search.brave.com and not save any other data for any other website, correct?

  1. Launch Brave and go to Settings --> Shields
  2. Toggle the Forget me when I close this site option “on”. Shields will now delete any cookie/site data for websites when you close them.
  3. Visit search.brave.com and click the Shields icon in the address bar and toggle Forget me when I close this site “off”. Recall that changing settings in the Shields panel in the address bar is site specific — so you will only be changing this for search.brave.com

Now, every site you visit will delete site/cookie data when it’s closed except for search.brave.com. If you want to include other sites, visit them and toggle that same option off in the Shields panel in the address bar.

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Hey @Mattches,

At first, thank you for your fast and detailed message! Really appreciate this!

With this setting set, do I need also to deactivate the functionality to delete all Data on exit?

When yes, what happens to my cache does this then cluttering up my disk space in the meantime or does this also gets deleted with your recommended settings?

What I have found to work for this issue, is to go to here:

brave://settings/content/siteData

…& to get there on your own in the future:

  1. Brave Settings
  2. Privacy & Security
  3. Site & Shield Settings
  4. (Under Subheader: “Content”) > Additional Content Settings (it’s unfortunately kinda buried in my opinion :man_shrugging:)
  5. On-device site data
  6. Choose “Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all websites” (Sites will probably work as you expect but won’t remember you after you close all brave windows)

Then you can add sites to any of the below as you wish:

  1. “Allowed to save data on your device”

  2. “Always delete site data from your device when you close Brave”

  3. “Not allowed to save data on your device”


Though a more user friendly way to do it is to go to:

  1. Here (the switch button to the left of the address bar > “Cookies and site data”):
  2. Then here (“Manage on-device site data”):
  3. Then here (The hamburger/sandwich menu)
  4. Then choose as you wish, whether it’s to
    “Allow to save data” OR
    “Don’t allow to save data” OR
    “Delete when you close all windows”
    (In the screenshot below I’ve obviously chosen to “Allow to save data” on this website.

Also to consider doing as Mattches suggested above to
  1. Go to Brave icon >
  2. Advanced controls >
  3. “Forget me when I close this site”
Assuming you have that toggled on in
  1. Brave Settings >
  2. Shields (or brave://settings/shields ) >
  3. “Forget me when I close this site”
    (Clear cookies and other site data when you close a site.)

With that I have under
  1. Brave Settings >
  2. Privacy & Security >
  3. “Delete Browsing Data” (or brave://settings/clearBrowserData)
  4. to NOT delete “Cookies and other site data” so I have that UNchecked within the “On Exit” subheading saved (as well as “Sites and Shield Settings” UNchecked but that’s about it).
This is an example of being able to do a similar thing a multiple different ways.
Hope that helps :blush: :+1: (and BTW this is as much as reminder for me as it is for anyone else, sometimes I need to setup a new browser and forget how to get to my original good settings like this :rofl: :crazy_face: )
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@LxWulf if you have it set to delete on exit, such as in the screenshot below (though I have everything unchecked), then that overrides any other settings you have. In other words, there is no whitelist or anything. So it’s generally not good to use.

Only thing you will want to use is the Forget Me When I close this site option like Mattches discussed and I vaguely touch on at Delete Cookies on Exit and How to Whitelist Websites

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That’s why I say that here @Saoiray :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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