I would think most savvy web users do one of a couple things for websites they’d like to revisit or recover accidentally closed tabs. I doubt many of them would cite blindly adding a thumbnail to the otherwise beautiful home page for any website they visit.
If I have a site I visit often, I bookmark it so it’s convenient in the Bookmarks Bar.
If I inadvertently close a random site then need to return to it, I restore closed tab OR visit History.
What I NEVER want is for my browser to decide that I’m going to get bookmarks glomming up my home page with every site I sign in to whether I want it or not.
I would think this would also add headaches for the dev team. Looking through the forums, I see several people complaining that their private sessions are getting thumbs added. No bueno.
PLEASE give users the power to decide whether bookmarks get added to the Brave home page. This seems like a no-brainer option to me but it appears other threads on this issue simply don’t get responded to. Not sure why this would be so near-and-dear to Brave dev’s hearts.
I like those thumbs on the home page, but I would like to decide what goes there. I’ve tried deleting ones I don’t want, then opening a new window to a site I DO want, but alas it doesn’t work.
Having just opened Brave and found myself deleting all of those from my homepage, I came here looking for some way to turn that feature OFF as I could not find anything about it in settings. So… I’m with the users above. I dislike that feature. My only interaction with it has been to delete them and it happens every time I open the browser for the 1st time, ergo, it get’s old quick.
@ rgnkjnva
I totally agree and in the older version you could at least just have your new tab open as just blank pages. But it would be great to be able to turn off the thumbs, oh and have the browser clear history on close(that option is no longer available) in Brave - Version 0.58.21 Chromium: 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit). you have to clear the history manually now
I love Brave overall but I have detested not being able to either customize or just turn off this feature from day one. Please, either give us a way to control what is shown in the thumbs or hide them.
I deleted all the new tab bookmarks and since then they have never shown up again. This is a feature of Brave to guess that I don’t want this or what is going on here?
Don’t get me wrong, I am happy not having it show up. It adds privacy not having my frequently visited sites on all my new tabs and I love the wallpapers way too much to cover them up An in-between solution could be to have a keyboard shortcut toggle them on and off so I have them at my fingertips when I need them and otherwise they are out of sight.
On the other hand, this should be something users can enable or disable. Incognito and Tor stuff should never show up there!
A customization option for the recent/frequent pages would be greatly appreciated. I, personally, really like the tiles, and use them to jump back to pages I go to often. But I would like more than 6, because the pages that I use are constantly getting pushed out of the 6. I realize some would want them gone all together. Why not add some configuration with a slider so you could choose between 0 and, say, 24?
I’ll+1 that. I love the tiles, just hate lack of control, and with a large screen, showing only two rows is like only brushing only your two front teeth.
If you clear your history in the settings the tiles will come back.
I’m surprised that many users like the top sites feature and want to be able to save more. For me, I don’t understand why Brave doesn’t allow the functionality of not using this feature.They design a beautiful home page only to have it cluttered up with tiles.
It’s not only that it tries to add sites left and right to the new tab page, what bothers me is that the icons aren’t very sharp. Most look blurry. Also, dragging and dropping to re-arrange the order is kinda finicky.
I’d prefer to have an option to choose between the current tiles (with editable text labels) or a collapsible menu with favicons (and editable text labels).
Bigger point is, there are already mechanisms for users to store sites they want to revisit.
If you want to get back to a site you recently visited but can’t recall the url, there’s History
Want to make sure this page is available later? There are Bookmarks and the Bookmark Bar for that.
My gripe here is that my browser is deciding this for me, causing ‘work’ for me to remove these unwanted, ugly, low-res tiles. This behavior doesn’t solve an existing problem and, in fact, introduces one though admittedly a minor, unnecessary annoyance. They’re clearly not devoting much time nor attention to this feature but a simple toggle switch surely wouldn’t take much of either.
I don’t know how it may have been a month ago, but it is now easily removable from the new tab page (if I figured correctly that is what you’re all referring to) by hovering over the section and pressing the button on the side and clicking remove or going through the setting in the right bottom corner where you can pick what you want to show up. This feature is the same, though, in other browsers, as well, such as Chrome and Firefox, where the “most frequented / top / recent” sites show up underneath the search bar.
I really like how Opera allows the organization of tiles on the desktop. It has the usual dropdown for bookmarks, but then I can choose and display tiles on the desktop that I use often. I would like to completely switch to Brave, but unless I can figure out how to place those tiles on the starting desktop, or Brave allows that capability, Brave will unfortunately be my back-up browser. I really hope that it eventually becomes my go-to browser because I like their paradigm-changing approach.
An in-between solution could be to have a keyboard shortcut toggle them on and off so I have them at my fingertips when I need them and otherwise they are out of sight.