Description of the issue:
When using auto-expanding side tabs, if you hover just slightly too long over a given collapsed sidebar site icon (and it’s almost always too long), then when you click to select it, you’re clicking on the close button of the just-expanded site entry, and lose the tab.
How can this issue be reproduced?
See above.
Expected result:
Don’t close the tab accidentally.
I don’t know how to solve this, but you have to admit it’s a pretty egregious user experience. Maybe don’t enable the close button for a half second after expanding the sidebar?
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.80.113
Additional Information:
@cpryland not entirely sure I understand the issue fully. Here’s what I see when I enable vertical tabs in Brave and set them to expand on mouse-over:
As you can see, the tabs list expands out as expected and stays expanded until I move my mouse off the tab strip. The close/x button stays to the right side of the tab.
Yes, that’s what it does, but it forces you to hover and wait for the expansion, which takes a half-second, before you can click on a given tab. I want to just click on the unexpanded icon to select it to save that delay.
Oh I see – sorry I kept my tabs on the left and neglected the side that displayed on which makes all the difference. It looks like that issue was opened some time ago – I’ve added your report to the GH thread and will ping some folks internally to see if we can get any movement on it.