Not to get righteous, but I find it extremely suspicious that Brave doesn’t allow for a setting as ubiquitous and ancient as disabling history. No, clear-on-exit is not a form of disabling history. I suppose it’s not surprising given such recent improvements as Leo.
I want to use websites without having them pop up when I start typing into my URL bar. I just want my bookmarks to pop up, nothing else. I am human: I cannot stay focused when my browser seems to want me distracted. Interestingly, around 2020, Chrome also decided to remove a feature to disable those URL bar suggestions. I don’t really get how companies can profit off making people endlessly cycle in unproductivity, but here we are.
There are dozens of other topics requesting this on Brave Community. Most that I’ve read have had responses with suggestions to either use clear-on-exit or simply use incognito mode, always. What a thoughtful idea. Unfortunately, I’m very lazy, so I’d rather not have to log back into multiple Gmail accounts, YouTube, Feedly, several forums and several other sites 1-3 times a day, manually copy-and-pasting my secure passwords for each. (Assuming Incognito Mode even allows you to log in.) And I don’t want to clear-on-exit, because that still gives me URL bar suggestions for what I’ve visited that session (assuming it even successfully clears - my settings tab has been “clearing” my history for 15 minutes and is giving me a spinning blue wheel - ctrl+h gives me a white screen with “Loading…”). Rejecting not one but two gracious solutions - how bold of me, right?
I’m just going to ask it: Where is the history stored on Windows? Is it under “AppData\Local\Brave Software”? Just let me make it read-only or remove permissions from it. I get it: Brave (or, at least, Chromium) doesn’t like its users. Just let us make a workaround for ourselves.
In the mean time, I hear Firefox has this feature.
