debart
October 7, 2025, 3:05pm
1
I don’t know why the search in settings is all the way in the upper right corner, and then when you click on it, it moves all the way to the left corner. In chrome, it’s in the center and focused and ready for action.
If you can’t put it in the center in Brave because of the toolbar, why not just put it in the upper left so it doesn’t shift around. Also please add a shortcut key for it. The usual cmd+f do a text search in page.
thank you
Funny you should say that, as I just opened this issue yesterday:
opened 10:12PM - 09 Oct 25 UTC
suggestion
feature/user-interface
feature/global-settings
feature/settings
OS/Desktop
### Description
In Brave, the search option in `brave://settings` is positioned … in the very top-right corner of the page, far away from the main focal points of the page almost as if to hid it from view, which seems strange.
<img width="1914" height="565" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/47e22d78-c8cd-4e60-8fa1-a801a66b1c53" />
Even stranger, when you click on the icon, the settings search bar appears and the search icon jumps all the way to the left side of the screen, which is also where you start typing, and then to close the search bar, you need to click the `x` which is located _all the way to the right, back where the search icon originally started_.
<img width="1916" height="194" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4182d809-e85d-4b6d-8d0f-a48203a221ac" />
While this isn't a massive issue and is still manageable, I think this function can be simplified and improved visually to look better and make more sense.
For inspiration, here are a few alternative ways we can handle the settings search function (apologies in advance for the quick and crude mockups):
**Suggestion 1**
**Move search icon and bar to the middle:**
If we place the search icon at the end of the settings ribbon at the top, it brings the icon close to to the rest of what is on the page:
<img width="1918" height="558" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cc2c2576-5c0b-4e50-9618-c2a80cb6102e" />
Then, when you click to search, instead of expanding the search field to the entire width of the browser window, only have it extend the width of the settings options at the top (which were getting covered anyway):
<img width="1918" height="558" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec9b65ed-31fd-4c8a-b897-ed041f591545" />
**Suggestion 2**
Instead of having the search field expand when triggered, we could implement something close to what MS Edge has for this function, where the search bar is already visible, and appears at the top of the settings list:
(Edge)
<img width="657" height="262" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8c11f2c0-5eed-4ad9-943a-50125eeb26d7" />
That's already where it goes after expanded anyway -- just move it down a few pixels and maybe darken the background to make clear that it's a search field:
<img width="1918" height="558" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d11f92b6-361c-4cac-a668-a4a34814318f" />
### Steps to reproduce
N/A
### Actual result
N/A
### Expected result
N/A
### Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
### Brave version (brave://version info)
All
### Channel information
- [x] release (stable)
- [x] beta
- [x] nightly
### Reproducibility
- [ ] with Brave Shields disabled
- [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
- [ ] in the latest version of Chrome
### Miscellaneous information
_No response_
On the settings page, Ctrl + F or Cmd + F on macOS, does work as a keyboard shortcut for settings search.
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debart
October 11, 2025, 3:06pm
3
thank you. So it does. I tried it before and it only searched for text on page. Weird.
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