In safari, the top of the browser recolors to respect the
meta name=“theme-color” content=“#ff6600”
statement when included in a website, both on mobile and desktop. I would like Brave to do this as well.
That’s a good observation, and some people have noticed the same thing. In Safari, when a website includes this line:
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ff6600">
the top of the browser changes color to match. This works well on both mobile and desktop Safari. It gives the website a more custom and clean look. For example, a site like Homewatch CareGivers could use a calm or soft color that matches their brand. It makes visitors feel more comfortable and shows care was taken in the design.
Brave is built using Chromium, like Chrome. On Android, Brave supports this theme-color feature, so the top of the browser does change. But on desktop and iOS, Brave may not fully support it yet. That means the top bar might not change color even if you include the meta tag.
The best thing to do is still add the theme-color tag in your website’s code. It works in many browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. It won’t hurt your site if Brave doesn’t show it right now.
For a service like Homewatch CareGivers, this small touch can improve how users feel when visiting the website. If more people send feedback to Brave, they may support this better in future updates.
So the simple answer is: include the tag, it helps in most cases, and maybe Brave will support it more fully later.
Hey, I was browsing the Brave Community forums the other day, and someone brought up an interesting point about how Safari changes the top bar color of the browser to match a website’s theme-color meta tag, like , which gives a cool, unified look on both mobile and desktop. They were wishing Brave would do the same thing. For example, if you visit a site like Thomas Lewis Professional Painting, which might use a specific color scheme to reflect their brand (maybe a bold orange or something), Safari would pick up that color and apply it to the browser’s top bar. People in the community mentioned that Brave already supports the theme-color meta tag on Android, which is nice, but there’s no option for it on desktop versions yet.
Some folks find it annoying when websites override the browser’s look, and there was a post about wanting to disable this feature entirely on mobile. Others think it’d be awesome for Brave to add this as a customizable option, so users could choose whether to allow websites to set the browser’s top bar color. It seems like a small tweak, but it could make browsing feel more seamless for sites with strong branding, like a painting business. What do you think—would this be a cool feature for Brave to add?