Hello everyone,
Brave is based on Chromium, and as such, the browsing history is only of 90 days.
Other Chromium-based browsers have removed that limit and I hope it will be the same for Brave.
Do you have any plan for that? Maybe I can change that myself on my browser?
A browser history is a part of our memory and sometimes we want to find that article, we saw a long time ago (long time being years and not weeks).
Thank you.
i do want to be able to have an option to have way longer browser history, i saw this may be helps anyonewho is asking for the same, but it should be in BRAVE for sure at least as option!
Same here, we wish that there was an option for a built-in export feature so that we can extend the browsing history older than 3 months and export the history for all of The Android And iOS Mobile Devices, by the way, bro. 
Yes! Please extend the browser history!
Yes much needed. Firefox and Vivaldi have itâŚ
I do not understand why the limit is there to begin with. What was the logic behind the Google devsâ decision?
Absolutely no need to have a long history. Seriously, why would you need to know what websites you visited a year ago? Typically if it was important or useful it would be bookmarked. And it can be a lot to even try to sort through. But for those who think itâs important, you can get extensions that help track. (or on Chrome, you can just save it to your Google account overall)
To improve overall performance. The more items in your local history, the slower your browser can become when it tries to access or index that data (e.g., auto-complete suggestions in the address bar).
To reduce used space rather than clogging up peopleâs devices. By limiting how much local data is stored, browsers reduce overall storage footprints.
To reduce potential issues around privacy and security. If an attacker gains physical or remote access to your device, a massive, never-ending browser history could be a treasure trove of personal data. Restricting local history to a shorter time window reduces this risk.
To step away from potential issues with regulatory guidelines. GDPR, LGPD, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, AAPI, and other such regulations by governments state that personal data should not be held onto longer than necessary. It also aligns broadly with the concept of âPrivacy by Designâ embedded in regulations like GDPR.
If we say we need it, your opinion is irrelevant. Then itâs odd to end up telling us that we can keep it with Chromeâs synchronization if we use Brave.
Most browsers allow you to do this, and theyâre no slower or heavier than Brave.
Yes, and if someone gets access to passwords, bookmarks, etc., whatâs the difference? Again, thatâs our problem. Isnât Brave supposed to be very secure? With encryption, recovery keys, etc?
What are you talking about? What rule prohibits a citizen from keeping what he wants concerning him for as long as he wants? ? Besides, I donât understand this argument when, again, there are 36 ways to do it with other browsers, and theyâre not illegal.
There clearly is. Otherwise, this request wouldnât exist, and the Internet wouldnât be plagued with similar complaints.
For the same reason I need to know what sites I visited a month ago. Actually, there is more need to want to know a site you visited a while ago because youâre more likely to have forgotten it.
Most importantly, why not? You do realize weâre talking about plaintext? Does a extra few kilobytes really bother you that much? A PDF takes up more space.
âTypicallyâ is the keyword. Real life isnât perfect or typical. I forget / donât bother bookmarking things routinely. Iâm sure most users donât either. That is if they even bother bookmarking things to begin with. Not to mention, hindsight is 20/20. You donât know what youâll need in a month, let alone a year from now.
We live in an age of terabyte-sized SSDs being a rule, not an exception. HDDs go for $10/TB. My man, do you seriously consider this âclogging up peopleâs devicesâ? How much do you think this forum page took up for your browser to load?
I can assure you this self-cleaning âfeatureâ has nothing to do with privacy or security. Itâs an upstream artifact that comes from Chrome, a product that I assure you doesnât treat your privacy as its priority. More importantly: donât you think that if browsing history were such a huge security liability, they wouldnât have removed it altogether? Donât you think that the recent three months of your browsing history are a lot more relevant than whatever you visited a year ago? By your own logic.
LMAO. Chrome allows infinite history if you log into your account. It would be the opposite (logging in to Googleâs servers would limit history length) if what you were saying were true or at all a concern. Weâre talking about local history. GDPR doesnât apply.
It serves as a database for selected websites / content / shops / etc.
This is extremely useful.
Imagine you bought a âswingâ 5 years ago and it now broke and you would like to buy again the sameâŚ
Or you went to Thailand 3 years ago and there was this super restaurant in this great Thai city⌠if only you could remember itâs nameâŚ
well the BROWSER HISTORY can remember it for youâŚ
Do I need to go on to convince the Brave masters?
Maybe you can help@Brave-Browser-Fanboy to bump this up ? - Thanks a lot in advance for any support.
All we are asking is for the OPTION to chose longer history if we so wish (of course this should not be MANDATORY for everyone).
Pretty please.
I also think itâs a useful feature to have configurable. For me, itâs a matter of being able to revisit programming knowledge I had been looking up for older projects; stuff that wasnât important enough to bookmark but which came up in conversation years later (âHey, have you ever tried to do X in Y language?â âYes, but I couldnât and I donât remember why. Let me go back and show you what solutions DIDNâT work.â)
This type of reply has annoyed me more than almost anything except maybe spam since the birth of the internet; i.e. people who think that everybody else should have the same food in the fridge as them and cannot conceive of anybody else having different needs and, in most cases, if other people try to explain why their needs are different, instead of accepting their explanation, argue that their needs are wrong.
Personally, Iâd like to have been able to keep my browsing history back until the early 90s, though I know that most of it will have rotted, partially for the same reason that my late mother kept newspaper clippings but also because I do research and sometimes I might think, âwhere did I read that?â. If, for some unlikely reason I didnât want my history saved, I know that there are options.
As it happens, I found this thread because I was looking for a news story that I read six days ago and there is no sign of it in my history yet apparently, Brave saves browsing history for 90 days. I donât have history disabled nor is it set to automatically clear, so Iâm very frustrated.
@okulo I appreciate the opinions and requests. As you said, we all have different needs. Though coupled with that are an endless differences in wants and desires. The challenge for any person or company is differentiating between what is a âwantâ and a âneed.â They have to address not only the wants and needs of people, but also then the limitations of technology and the variations of machines people will be using their product on.
The portion you quoted was my personal opinion, of which I followed up and did ask for more information. On that I was focused on âneedsâ rather than âwants.â And while I could have phrased some of it better, I did at least sincerely engage and ask why a user would âneedâ to know what website they visited a year ago. Along with that tried mentioning tools that can be used for people who do have a âwantâ for a longer history.
Part of that is trying to help point out ways to accomplish the goal. But it does also go into an area of asking, if itâs a "want", how obligatory is it? Is the company or its employees obligated to add additional features based on what a group of individuals want?
The key thing looked at here is that people, especially the devs, have to weigh out requests like longer browsing history lists along with things like the work and time needed to build and maintain the changes, the impact it can have on performance and file sizes, what indications it might have for privacy, the opinions and wants of other users, and whatever else.
Much like how your mother had to clip the articles from the paper, we have things like bookmarks to save it, right? We also can save code for offline viewing, save as PDF, and other things for content we think could be important.
This is also where extensions like History Trends Unlimited or Better History became an option. These can store history entries for longer and give a different interface.
Understood. But there are also a lot of people who struggle with technology. Often products are built to best accommodate everyone. Browsers basically add just a bit more beyond the basics so even the people with the least knowledge and skills can use it. Then we have things like extensions for the smarter people like yourself that can expand those options available.
Interesting. That should still be there. Iâm assuming you werenât in a private window and are sure you were not using a different profile, device, or browser?
If youâre willing, it would be helpful to create a new topic to bring this up and share details on the device, OS, and version of Brave youâre using. While it may not necessarily be possible to help find that entry or anything, it at least bring awareness of a possible issue and gives other users to add to it if they also have noticed a similar issue.
Well, one could argue that nobody âneedsâ a web browser and when you use words like âabsolutelyâ, you are making a sweeping statement.
I suspect that the loss of my browsing history is down to the frequent crashes of Brave immediately prior to which pages flicker and half disappear; e.g. on Twitter/X, posts are visible but the details of the user who posted them are not and similar on eBay.
To be honest, I donât have the inclination to start a new thread; the last few threads that I started (one of which was the crashing issue) remained unresolved so I got the feeling that nobody was interested.
A lot of it comes on priority. I just was looking at your topic history and none of the recent ones seem to reference crashing. I see one from 2024âŚ
So the very last one you showed was Incorrect favourites icons in 'New Tab' > 'Show More' and Github is open. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/50741. Iâm not experiencing the issue, so assuming itâs resolved.
YouTube audio continues after tab is closed likely had gone unnoticed. It can help to comment again. Often if it goes 30+ days with no follow-up, it can be drowned out or assumed resolved in an update. That said, I know I referenced it in a recent Github issue: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/52504#issuecomment-3955574537 That was acknowledged by devs and given P4 for priority, meaning it might be a while before they figure it out or make changes.
The list goes on. Youâre right, not everything gets a reply and things can be easily missed. And even when acknowledged, it can take time for fixes to land. However, they do get seen and referenced.
Going back to the idea of crashes, I donât see this on any of your recent replies either
Anyway, if you want to create any topics and make sure to provide the relevant informationâŚpreferably in the template format, I can absolutely try to help and Support from Brave may take a peek.
Everyone here tries as they can. I understand you feel like itâs not moving as efficiently as it should and that some of your issues did not get responses. Thereâs definitely room for improvement.
Well, time flies, especially when you get to my age, and I was out of circulation for much of 2025 but I definitely raised the issue of crashing and pages falling apart (for want of a better description).
Youâre wrong, you may not need to know what you visited a year ago, thatâs fine, I do. I have for personal and for legal reasons as well, actually needed to find something I never thought I would again. And Iâve found myself needing to know a website I visited 5 or even 10 years ago, hundreds of times now. I still have my email history back to 1998 for the same reason and have had to find references back that far numerous times as well, some for âneededâ legal reasons. Please donât try to make your personal short term preferences universal, they are not, and you donât get to be the arbiter of what is needed vs. wanted. You may have no interest in posterity, probably why you and others may love discord and similarly useless replacements for forums and similar, but most of us want some ability for long term recall.
