Rich, I did a bit of experimentation. If I change settings then reboot my machine, brave does not shut down properly and my settings do not get restored the next time I open Brave. If I change settings, then close the tab (or Brave), THEN reboot, my settings are still set properly when I open Brave.
I think the settings don't get saved until the tabs (or Brave) are closed properly. When Brave is not explicitly closed before shutting down, then the settings get lost. My recommendation is to configure your DDG settings to the way you want them, then close the tab. Now your settings will be saved and will be the new 'default' when you search with DDG. A better, but slightly more difficult solution (for which I am not able to give more detailed assistance since I have never used xfce) is to add the following to xfce's shutdown process. > /usr/bin/pkill --oldest --signal TERM -f brave This will gracefully kill brave and you will no longer get the "Brave didn't shut down correctly" message. On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 9:02 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Jason Barnett wrote: > > > Try enabling cookies for DDG, in brave. > > Jason, > > They're enabled by default. With firefox I had both browsing history and > cookies deleted when I logged out. Perhaps I need to manually remove > cookies > in Brave. > > Thanks for the suggestion, > > Rich >
