Brave currently limits autocomplete suggestions in the address bar to 2–4 entries per category (Bookmarks, History, Search). This limit is fixed and not user-configurable.
Problem: Power users with large, structured bookmark sets – e.g. service-based naming conventions like SRV-* or 192.168.* – are severely limited by this cap. Typing a known prefix returns only a fraction of relevant results, forcing additional keystrokes or manual navigation.
Firefox addresses this via browser.urlbar.maxRichResults. Chromium exposes no equivalent setting, but Brave – as a privacy-focused browser targeting professional users – is well-positioned to lead here.
A single integer setting in brave://settings would suffice and would not affect default behavior for standard users.
Impact: For professionals using the address bar as primary navigation, this is a meaningful productivity gap and a barrier to replacing Firefox in enterprise environments.
To follow up on this request with a concrete update:
The limitation has proven to be a real-world blocker, not a theoretical concern. As a result, I have developed a custom browser extension specifically to work around the missing configurability of omnibox suggestions.
The extension is functional – but the fact that a workaround like this is necessary for such a fundamental navigation feature speaks for itself.
The core ask remains simple: a single configurable parameter for maximum suggestion count. No UI overhaul, no breaking changes, no impact on default users.
This is a low-effort, high-impact improvement that would meaningfully close the gap to Firefox for power users and professional environments.
I strongly encourage reconsidering the priority of this request.
Personal context – why this matters beyond a power-user preference:
Firefox is my current default browser. I began evaluating Brave as a replacement – primarily for its performance advantages and as a privacy-compliant alternative for business clients.
Brave covers roughly 95% of what I would recommend and personally adopt as my standard browser. The one remaining blocker is the omnibox suggestion behaviour described in this request.
I am ending my evaluation and staying with Firefox. I may take another look in a few months – but only if requests like this one have moved forward by then.