Jump List options missing

[Tharshan]

Description of the issue:

Recently, I found that when right clicking on brave, the options would show up but now they just disappeared.

How can this issue be reproduced?

1. Pin Brave to taskbar.

2. Right click on Brave in taskbar

Expected result: options (New Window and Incognito window options not showing on Jump List

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Brave is up to date

Brave 1.85.120 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chromium: 143.0.7499.192

Additional Information:

Went on Brave website and redownloaded, issue still there.

Windows 11 - show settings in jump list option is on.

[289wk]

@Tharshan

Please describe / define “the options”; possibly similar to(?):

Barely a maybe . . . before you do the right-click, tap the keyboard’s F5 key, wait a sec, and tap the keyboard’s F5 key . . . and then do the right-click.

Next, but maybe . . . unpin and remove that Taskbar item. Exit / Quit everything; Restart computer; and add that Taskbar item.

[Tharshan]

Hi,

Yes, these options in the picture are what i’m missing.

Tried the F5 right click as described, still didn’t work.

I also unpinned from taskbar, full restart of PC, then pinned again but still missing.

[289wk]

@Tharshan

Take a look at:

‘Taskbar pop-up menu items missing - #7 by Reverend_Jim’

‘Windows Tasks "New Window" and "New Private Window" broken after reinstall - #16 by prebrook’

[MasterLink]

Can reproduce, but oddly on Chromium and Edge. All three used to have Jump Lists, now neither do.

Chromium regression perhaps?

I do remember New Window being an option, and something I used to use. Hadn’t in a while so I honestly don’t know when it disappeared. Chromium hasn’t been updated in a bit, so it’s on “143.0.7499.110” and it’s missing it. Edge is on Chromium 143.0.3650.139, even older and still no jump list.

So I dug further, and found this Windows 11 setting:

Since enabling that:

(Had to relaunch Brave, but it made it work again.)

[MasterLink]

The only drawback, and I think I did disable this, is the new Windows Start Menu is just so…bad. And I had to turn it off to de-clutter it. (You’ll know if you got it unlocked because it looks like this now).

I disabled that setting because it lumps so much under one “flag”. But yea, you either have a de-cluttered Start menu and no jump list in your task bar, or you suffer clutter with a jump list.

(Thanks Microsoft.)

The only one browser that wouldn’t re-enable jump list was Chromium, but Edge did as well. This makes me wonder if Chromium itself actually doesn’t have jump lists.

[Tharshan]

I don’t know how, but somehow its work now.