It seems once you delete a Frequently Visited site from a new tab (many by stupidity in my case), it will never reappear no matter how many times you subsequently frequent that site. This is counter-intuitive to what I think should happen. So after clearing my browser history, other sites I visit start re-populating the Frequently Visited list… but not ones that were once deleted. Is there a way to reset these sites within Brave? Thanks.
Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
display “Frequently Visited” Top Sites on New Tab
delete a Frequently Visited site from new tab
visit site multiple times
Expected result: site will eventually reappear in Frequently Visited
UPDATE: Using bookmarks to access the previously deleted sites will not re-populate the Frequently Visited list BUT if I actually type out the complete url (http:\\…), some previously deleted sites do re-populate the list… while others do not. Ignoring bookmarks is extremely inconvenient but the inconsistencies are a real problem. Am I missing something?
For each troublesome website - in a Brave Browser New Window, visit the specific website of interest - for example, the main Google website: https://www.google.com/. Click on the tune icon that is adjacent to the left end of the Brave Browser window’s URL address field:
In the resulting pop-down window, find and click on the Site settings button:
In the resulting Brave Browser Settings window at:
Click the Delete data button and/or the Reset permissions button.
Revisit the website of interest and repeat the steps - EXCEPT this occasion, in the resulting Brave Browser Settings window, scroll down and Allow Javascript:
I had no idea the ?tune? button was even a button. Thanks. Of course, I should have tested this procedure on a site without so many site personal preferences (50+ favorites on tv.garden). The site still won’t show up on the Frequently Visited. I used this procedure on other sites with mixed results, similar to just typing in the url in the address bar, as it worked on some sites but not others. And some sites that I did NOT delete from FV before, no longer show up in FV. And some sites I used only once never get bumped out of FV.
Sites accessed from bookmarks and auto-complete (in address bar) do not populate Frequently Visited. Example: amazon.com bookmark does not work but typing that exact url into the address bar does.
The whole Frequently Visited thing seems a bit arbitrary. Don’t know if I somehow broke it or it was always goofy. What a mess. Just wanna start over, without losing all my Brave settings and bookmarks.
On desktop, Brave keeps almost everything (history, top sites, etc.) inside your profile folder, typically under a path like BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\<profile>.brave+1
The “Frequently Visited” / “Top Sites” tiles on the New Tab Page are generated from this profile’s browsing history and engagement data, and details about the most frequently visited pages are kept in Brave’s internal “Top Sites” artifact within that profile.anoopcnair+1
Practical implications
Because the list is calculated from history and engagement, removing or clearing history will change what appears under “Frequently Visited.”brave+1
There is no standard user-facing option to open a dedicated file showing the raw “Frequently Visited” list; instead, it lives inside the profile data alongside other SQLite/JSON databases that Brave uses for history and related artifacts.forensafe+1
The Top Sites file is an SQLite database -type file. How to read that type of file:
‘Brave got rid of all my passwords - #7 by 289wk’
(In that example, the Login Data file is also an SQLite database -type file.)
