Customize the list of top sites

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Hi Brave team,

I love using Brave because it puts control back in the user’s hands, especially with privacy. I have a feature suggestion that I think fits perfectly with that spirit.

Right now, the “Top Sites” section on the new tab page is automatic. While helpful, it doesn’t always match what I actually want quick access to. Sometimes a site I visit just once for research sticks around, while a site I use every other day gets bumped off. I end up typing the same addresses manually.

I’m not alone in this. Looking at community forums, other users have asked for more control for years. People have mentioned wanting to “pin” a favorite site so it never disappears, or to manually remove a site they don’t want in that list without clearing their whole history. The common wish is for a simple way to customize that space to match our personal workflow.

My suggestion is to add a manual override option. It could be as simple as:

1. A small “lock” or “edit” icon on the new tab page to enter customization mode.

2. In this mode, we could drag sites to reorder them, pin them permanently, or remove specific ones with an ‘X’.

3. The automatic list could still fill in any empty spots or appear in a separate “Suggested” row.

This would make the new tab page truly mine and save me a lot of clicks. It feels like a natural extension of the control Brave already gives us.

Thanks for your time and for building a great browser. I hope this feature gets considered.

Best,

A Brave user

BTW I wrote the previous text with AI so it looks weird, excuse me because my English is bad

Fingers crossed, but I have my doubts it’ll ever be implemented.

Given that Chrome apparently lets you drag and drop top sites to rearrange them, they should at least be able to do that much.

@Karsoth and @MontaserHuman it’s already a thing. It’s on its way to being added. You can see it in Nightly if you want to check. Below is a screenshot from where I added Nightly to my Bluestacks.

That’s fantastic news, because I just deleted my top sites thinking that it would let me change their order by visiting the sites over and over. Apparently deleting a site adds a flag so it never appears on your top sites again, and the only way to fix it is by completely resetting your Brave.

Yeah, I think it does some sort of blacklist but I don’t know how it works. A long time ago we used to be able to visit brave://site-engagement/ and that is how it was controlled. We could remove entries or adjust numbers. But at some point that stopped.

I’m not sure of any particular menu to navigate to. It might work just by clearing either History or Site Data, but I’m not positive if one or both would do it.

Great news… I have been waiting for it for so long. :eyes:

This sounds great, I’m going to switch to Brave nightly.

Looks like you weren’t kidding. They moved it from nightly to stable really quickly, too.