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:

1. Launch Brave
2. Navigate to Menu --> Settings --> System --> Performance
3. 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:

1. Next to Always keep these sites active, click Add
2. 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 like account.brave.com or talk.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 and youtube.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 or google.com/* won’t match and prevent deactivation.
       
3. 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":