How do I use the Memory Saver feature in Brave? Follow
To save your computer’s memory and help active tabs run smoothly, Brave deactivates tabs that you aren't currently using. When you access an inactive tab, it automatically reloads.
Enable or disable Memory Saver
To enable or disable the Memory Saver
feature:
- Launch Brave
- Navigate to
Menu --> Settings --> System --> Performance
- Toggle the
Memory Saver
option on/off:
Keep specific sites active
You may elect to add exceptions to the feature in order to keep specific sites active. Note The URL format for site exclusion is as follows:
[scheme://][.]host[:port][/path][@query]
To add a site to the exclusion list:
- Next to
Always keep these sites active
, clickAdd
- Enter the web address
- If you want to create an exception for:
-
Entire domains and subdomains: Exclude the URL scheme. For example, entering
brave.com
matches and prevents deactivation of of subdomains likeaccount.brave.com
ortalk.brave.com
-
A specific subdirectory: Include a dot (
.
) before the URL host. For example, www.brave.com/blog matches and prevents deactivation of all Blog pages, but will not prevent deactivation of the main www.brave.com pages. -
URL host and query components: Asterisks (
*
) can be used as wildcards that match any character(s). For example,https://*
matches and prevents deactivation of all https sites andyoutube.com/watch?v=*
matches and prevents deactivation of YouTube videos.
Note that Wildcards for prefix, suffix, or substring matches of the URL host component aren’t supported. For example,*oogle.com
orgoogle.com/*
won’t match and prevent deactivation.
-
Entire domains and subdomains: Exclude the URL scheme. For example, entering
- If you want to create an exception for:
- Click
Add
Change inactive tabs appearance
When using the Memory Saver feature, tabs that are inactive will display a "dotted circle" surrounding the favicon of the website on that tab:
For users who may not want inactive tabs to display this way, you can disable this feature by going to Settings --> Appearance --> Tabs
and toggle the Inactive tabs
option "off":