# Add tab cascade layout back to android

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153>\
**Category:** Android Requests\
**Tags:** feature-request, browser\
**Created:** [March 14, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153 "2022-03-14T04:21:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![SomeGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SomeGuy](https://community.brave.app/u/SomeGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/1 "2022-03-14T04:21:17Z")

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Google apparently decided to change the layout for tabs on android chromium, from a nice cascade that matched the android UI for apps to a bunch of little tiles.

I personally don’t like the tiles, as it is a jarring contrast with the rest of the android UI, and also if you’re like me and don’t keep a huge number of tabs in the background it is just a waste of space. Also, I like swiping down all my open tabs to close Brave, and the little tiles all end up on top, far away from where I keep my fingers while browsing.

Anyway, maybe some people have a use case for it, so it would probably be best to let people choose. You’ve been pretty cool about reversing other crappy google UI moves, so I’m hopeful you’ll do this one too.

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**Author:** ![quick\_clicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3be4f8/32.png) [@quick\_clicker](https://community.brave.app/u/quick_clicker)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:50am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/2 "2022-03-14T04:50:24Z")

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100% agree with OP. An unpopular change from everything I am seeing. I truly don’t understand the philosophy against giving users options. Just make it optional and give people who don’t want it the ability to disable it?!

Why force this on us?

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**Author:** ![Tipdrillar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tipdrillar](https://community.brave.app/u/Tipdrillar)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/3 "2022-03-14T05:10:01Z")

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Yes, this is the one feature that kept me using Brave. I’ll need to look elsewhere unless this gets addressed.

The current grid view UI kinda nullifies the bottom toolbar as well.

The disable/enable option should not have been removed.

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**Author:** ![quick\_clicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3be4f8/32.png) [@quick\_clicker](https://community.brave.app/u/quick_clicker)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/4 "2022-03-14T05:16:25Z")

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Here’s where they “retired” the old layout (cascade/stack) in favor of the very thing many of us left Chrome due to (the awful and screen space consuming Grid layout):

> <https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/21005>
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> \## Description 
> Now that we have an option to open in a new tab from the context menu https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/12149, users are not forced to group tabs anymore. We should retire stack layout UI for overview mode as it requires more and more resources for maintenance.
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> \## Device details
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> \- Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? 
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Completely baffled by this decision.

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**Author:** ![extremezhazha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@extremezhazha](https://community.brave.app/u/extremezhazha)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:57am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/5 "2022-03-14T05:57:21Z")

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Created an account just to upvote this one. The tab layout change was the biggest reason I quitted using chrome.

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**Author:** ![WilliamSivlar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6a8cbe/32.png) [@WilliamSivlar](https://community.brave.app/u/WilliamSivlar)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/6 "2022-03-14T11:07:23Z")

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I’d say Opera GX is a good alternative.

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**Author:** ![Sylv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sylv](https://community.brave.app/u/Sylv)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/7 "2022-03-14T12:34:29Z")

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This feature is absolutely terrible and made me leave Chrome, please make it optional.

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**Author:** ![Small3687](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/small3687/32/122574_2.png) [@Small3687](https://community.brave.app/u/Small3687)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/8 "2022-03-14T13:52:39Z")

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I literally stopped using chrome over this and I will stop using brave if this horrible grid tab layout can’t be fixed to a cascade.

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**Author:** ![AkoSolius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@AkoSolius](https://community.brave.app/u/AkoSolius)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/9 "2022-03-14T14:59:07Z")

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This is literally the reason I left Chrome. I will be looking for a new browser now

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**Author:** ![zhivagouk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zhivagouk](https://community.brave.app/u/zhivagouk)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/10 "2022-03-14T15:51:30Z")

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Stopped using chrome because of this $tupid feature which does not make sense… Its my phone so lack of space was never an issue for me. Leaving brave and Firefox

> **[Brave Browser for Android removes support for Tab Stack view - gHacks Tech News](https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/14/brave-browser-for-android-tab-stack-view-and-grid-layout/?amp)**
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> Brave Browser for Android no longer lets you use Tab Stack view. The change leaves grid layout as the only option for users.

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**Author:** ![amokreggar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@amokreggar](https://community.brave.app/u/amokreggar)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/11 "2022-03-14T16:13:26Z")

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This is the reason I left Chrome. Soon it will be the reason I leave Brave.

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**Author:** ![DrWhargoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@DrWhargoul](https://community.brave.app/u/DrWhargoul)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/12 "2022-03-14T17:08:03Z")

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Thanks, I’m trying this out now and like it so far.

I know I’m just one person but I WILL switch to this browser if Brave doesnt go back to the stack pretty quickly.

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**Author:** ![proton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@proton](https://community.brave.app/u/proton)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/13 "2022-03-14T17:09:53Z")

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Please, please bring back the cascade tabs.

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**Author:** ![Tombstone2K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tombstone2K](https://community.brave.app/u/Tombstone2K)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/14 "2022-03-14T17:42:55Z")

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I agree a 100%.  
Give an option to grid view

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**Author:** ![Jeepn101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@Jeepn101](https://community.brave.app/u/Jeepn101)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/15 "2022-03-14T21:40:49Z")

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Tab grid view is terrible. Bring back Tab Stack View please or at least an option for it. Will need to find another browser to use if grid view stays. One of the reasons I stopped using Chrome was grid view.

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**Author:** ![PabloW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@PabloW](https://community.brave.app/u/PabloW)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/16 "2022-03-14T22:36:45Z")

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absolutely agree! cannot believe this is google fault. why would they even do this. it’s pretty obvious many people choose the cascade mode. i would even say most people do.  
please let us have this back again on Brave! would be just another reason to stay using it.

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**Author:** ![CJRLaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@CJRLaw](https://community.brave.app/u/CJRLaw)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/17 "2022-03-14T23:20:42Z")

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+1

Cascade/tile stack is WAYYYY BETTER than the new grid tab layout for Android phones

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**Author:** ![Aardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Aardvark](https://community.brave.app/u/Aardvark)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/18 "2022-03-15T00:00:08Z")

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I left Chrome due to this. It takes me far longer to find a tab in grid layout. Cascade means I can scroll through quickly and find what I want. There really needs to be a choice. Not everyone has the same sized phone screen and some of us are dyslexic. I can’t read as fast when I’m having to constantly switch from reading left to right and up/down. Cascade allows me to focus on one tab headline at a time. I don’t want to have to switch browser again but I’ll have to if there’s no option to use cascade mode. I keep tabs open because I want to go back to them and find them quickly. Grid layout makes it almost quicker to open a new tab and search for it again.

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**Author:** ![Cryptoflo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Cryptoflo](https://community.brave.app/u/Cryptoflo)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/19 "2022-03-15T00:50:59Z")

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Agree, the singled out tabs is why I don’t use chrome anymore on mobile. Please give us a fix or option to switch back & be able to scroll through TABS.

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**Author:** ![Cryptoflo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Cryptoflo](https://community.brave.app/u/Cryptoflo)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/add-tab-cascade-layout-back-to-android/358153/20 "2022-03-15T00:54:29Z")

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BRAVE is going to lose alot of users if they don’t fix this, Atleast give us an option to do change back to cascade. THE NEW TABS ARE HORRIBLE. Alot of people left chrome over this exact thing, including me.

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