Recommended reading and study:
‘Brave deleted all my active tabs and favorites - #2 by 289wk’
Answering: “Where are “Frequently Visited” sites stored in Brave Browser?”
‘https://www.perplexity.ai/search/where-are-frequently-visited-s-G2KpYbd2QpOADzB_SJFguw’
EXCERPTS:
How Brave stores them
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+1Practical 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.)