Privacy & Data

Manage your browsing data. All data is stored locally on your device.

Clear Browsing History
Remove all visited page records
Clear Cache
Remove cached images, scripts and data
Clear Cookies
Remove all stored cookies and site data
Clear All Data
History + Cache + Cookies + Bookmarks

Browser Privacy

Enhanced Tracking Protection — Tobava blocks trackers that follow you around the web to collect information about your browsing habits.

Standard
Balanced for protection and performance. Pages will load normally.
  • Social media trackers
  • Cross-site tracking cookies
  • Tracking content in Private tabs
  • Cryptominers
  • Fingerprinters
Includes Total Cookie Protection — cookies are contained to each site so trackers can't follow you across the web
Strict
Stronger protection, but some sites or content may break.
  • Everything in Standard, plus:
  • Tracking content in all windows
  • All cross-site cookies blocked
  • Suspected fingerprinters blocked
  • Known malicious scripts blocked
Custom
Choose which trackers and scripts to block.
Social Media Trackers
Cross-Site Cookies
Cryptominers
Fingerprinters
Tracking Content (all windows)

Ad Blocker

Block ads, trackers, and cryptominers across all websites.

Built-in Ad Blocker
Active

Network & Secure Proxy

Route your traffic through Tobava's encrypted proxy. Uses SOCKS5h — DNS queries are tunnelled so your ISP cannot see which sites you visit. This is a secure proxy mode, not a full VPN.

Secure Proxy Mode
Route traffic through Tobava's SOCKS5 proxy for enhanced privacy
Connection Kill Switch
Block all internet traffic if the proxy connection drops unexpectedly — prevents your real IP from being exposed
DNS Leak Protection
DNS queries travel through the proxy tunnel (SOCKS5h). Your ISP cannot see your DNS lookups while Secure Proxy is active.
Always On

Encryption & DNS

Control how Tobava handles DNS lookups and encrypted connections.

DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
Encrypt DNS queries so your ISP cannot log which sites you visit. Standard DNS is sent in plain text.
WebRTC IP Leak Protection
Prevent WebRTC from exposing your real IP address even when Secure Proxy is active. WebRTC connections are routed only through the proxy.
HTTPS-Only Mode
Block all plain HTTP connections. Shows a warning before loading any unencrypted site — keeps your data from being intercepted in transit.
TLS 1.2+ Enforcement
Tobava rejects connections using insecure TLS 1.0 or 1.1. Only TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 are accepted.
Always On
Certificate Validation
Invalid, expired, or self-signed certificates trigger a full-page warning before the page loads.
Always On

Sandbox & Isolation

Tobava runs each page in a locked-down environment so malicious sites cannot access your system or other tabs.

Process Sandbox
Every tab runs in a separate sandboxed process with no access to the filesystem, OS APIs, or Node.js runtime. Malicious scripts cannot break out.
Always On
Site Isolation (OOPR)
Each website origin gets its own renderer process. Prevents Spectre/Meltdown-style side-channel attacks from reading data across origins.
Always On
Context Isolation
The browser's internal APIs are fully isolated from page JavaScript. Web pages cannot access Electron internals or your local files.
Always On
Private Tab Isolation
Private tabs use a completely separate session partition — no cookies, cache, or storage is shared with normal tabs.
Always On
Node.js Integration in Pages
Web pages have no access to Node.js. Only Tobava's own browser APIs are exposed through a restricted bridge.
Disabled (secure)

Permissions

Control what sites can access. When enabled, sites must still ask your permission.

Location Access
Sites can request your location
Camera & Microphone
Sites can request camera and microphone access

AI Features

Control AI-powered features. When AI Summary is enabled, page content is sent to Tobava's server for processing.

AI Page Summary
Summarize pages using Tobava AI

Voice Assistant

Tobava Koda works as a normal browser even with voice turned off. Enable it to control the browser hands-free using your voice.

Voice Assistant
Say commands, fill forms, control videos and more — all hands-free
"Hey Tobava" wake word
Listen in the background so you can start speaking without clicking anything
Startup greeting
Speak a welcome message when Koda opens
Contribute corrections (opt-in)
Anonymously share your voice corrections to help improve Tobava for everyone. Requires sign-in. No audio is ever uploaded — only text pairs.

Media

Control how media plays on websites.

Block Autoplay Videos
Videos and audio can play automatically

Analytics

Help improve Tobava by sending anonymous, non-personal usage data.

Anonymous Usage Analytics
Help improve Tobava by sending anonymous usage data

Performance

Tobava is built to use less memory and start faster than Chrome or Brave. These settings let you tune it further.

Always Active

GPU Rasterisation
Page tiles are painted on your GPU instead of the CPU — dramatically smoother scrolling and rendering
Active
Zero-Copy Texture Upload
GPU textures are uploaded without an extra CPU copy step — lower CPU load, higher frame rate
Active
Multi-Threaded Rasterisation
4 parallel threads paint page tiles — visibly faster initial load of complex pages
4 threads
Smooth Scrolling
Physics-based momentum scrolling — same feel as Chrome, none of the jank
Active
V8 Code Cache
JavaScript is compiled once and the bytecode is cached — revisited pages load noticeably faster
Active
Flash-Free Startup
The window appears only when fully rendered — no white flash, no blank screen on launch
Active
Instant Tab Switching
Background renderers stay live — switching tabs is instant with no re-render delay. Memory is managed by tab hibernation below.
Active
Spellcheck Disabled
Spellcheck loads a dictionary into every renderer — disabling it saves ~30 MB per open tab
Saved ~30 MB/tab

Configure

Tab Hibernation Threshold
Tabs idle longer than this are put to sleep — their renderer is unloaded, freeing all their RAM until you click them
Cache Size Limit
Tobava clears the disk cache automatically when it exceeds this size. Smaller = less storage used, slightly slower on re-visits.
Auto-Clear Cache on Exit
Clear disk cache when the browser closes — frees space but means the next session starts cold

Tobava Smart Engine

The Smart Engine monitors your device memory and alerts you when it's time to free up resources. Set when it should act — relative to your total RAM or by keeping a fixed amount free.

Alert Mode
Choose whether the threshold is a percentage of total RAM or a fixed minimum free amount
Alert when RAM usage exceeds
Smart Engine alerts and offers to sleep tabs when this threshold is crossed
Preview on your device
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Keyboard Shortcuts

Quick actions for power users.

Ctrl+T New tab
Ctrl+Shift+P Private tab
Ctrl+W Close tab
Ctrl+Shift+T Reopen tab
Ctrl+R / F5 Reload
Ctrl+Shift+R Hard reload
Ctrl+L / F6 Address bar
Ctrl+D Bookmark
Ctrl+H History
Ctrl+Shift+B Bookmarks
Ctrl+F Find in page
Ctrl+, Settings
Ctrl++ / - Zoom in/out
Ctrl+0 Reset zoom
Ctrl+1-9 Switch tabs
Ctrl+Tab Next tab
Alt+Left/Right Back/Forward
Alt+Home Home page
F11 Fullscreen
F12 DevTools
Ctrl+P Print page
Esc Close find/panel

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