Description of the issue: Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3. vertical tabs, lots of them closing said tabs optional: even having said tabs in groups, closing grouped tabs is still questionable. reference, i have several grouped tabs and some times, i can still collapse or open the grouped tabs but closing a tab is different optional 2: restore session Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!): brave is not responding even the optional sections of what i wrote, responds with brave is not responding Expected result: closing the tab out or collapsing & opening tab groups or restoring session Reproduces how often: near every time, even when restarting my pc Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): windows 11 Brave 1.86.139 (Official Build) (64-bit) Additional Information: im new to the brave community, as in, i made an account just to post this otherwise id prob wouldnt be here. so im not really knowledgeable in how things work or how things are done, tech or community wise. so correct me if im wrong or anything. also tell me how to give info properly if what i posted is not enough or so Semi important im able to mitigate it by going to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Sessions then i either delete or rename the sessions. then i open brave up again, i see my tab groups near top left & open it all up again. i then end task brave & bring brave back up again & restore session end of semi important. conversation? (i have lots of tabs) the reason i end task brave is because it eats up to much memory according to task manager & it doesnt sit right with me to have it eat up that much memory. this has been going on for the past few days, prob since the update. i remember somehow getting to restore session somehow after renaming or deleting & still get brave not responding. so the only option i came upon was what i described in the paragraph. i would consider reverting back to previous brave version & somehow keeping my last session or my tabs & tab groups but im to anxious about trying to do it right & not mess up somehow. so i think i rather put up with this new method/routine of mine vs dealing with my anxiety/nervousness of messing up. unless of course im 100% certain id have no issues in executing it & basically not mess up. of course i could just, re organize, take pics then revert back to previous version & simply open it all back up & pray that next version after this doesnt cause same issue (im assuming its this brave version that causing the issue & next version corrects it) but that is a lot of work & a pain to do. so i rather be lazy & deal with the slight annoyance of going to app data, etc. i only picked up pieces of info here & there, that maybe vertical tabs were an issue or tab scrolling or something like that. which is why i mentioned it, as i thought it could of some importance. i like the vertical tab feature & frankly not willing to give it up or give up on browser. of course not mentioning ad block, etc. ill apologize if this is not the correct tag, as said earlier, im new here. ill prob wont check back or if i do, it wont be for a while at the very least. not sure how active things are here if your looking for my reasoning on why i wont at least be back for a while.

@WolfBandit only thing I’d suggest is trying to search for similar topics before creating a new topic, just for future reference. This is a known issue and being looked into: [image] When I use vertical tabs and close one, the browser freezes Browser Support This is a known issue that the team is working on presently: Reports of Brave not responding when closing a vertical tab in 1.86.139 opened 03:38PM - 16 Jan 26 UTC (UTC) [image] hollons crash feature/tabs-bar priority/P2 OS/Desktop feature/vertical-tabs ### Description Several user reports of Brave freezing/not responding when clos…ing a vertical tab https://community.brave.app/t/brave-not-responding-when-i-try-to-close-a-tab/648189. ### Steps to reproduce I've been unable to reproduce so far. User's reporting: 1. Open 10+ tabs 2. Close one 3. Brave freeze's ### Actual result Brave not responding. ### Expected result For the tab to close ### Reproduces how often Intermittent issue ### Brave version (brave://version info) 1.86.139 ### Channel information - [x] release (stable) - [ ] beta - [ ] nightly ### Reproducibility - [ ] with Brave Shields disabled - [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled - [ ] in the latest version of Chrome ### Miscellaneous information _No response_

[image] Kevin888: please brave fixed the bugs They are, joining just to say this only slows things down to deal with comments like these. As pointed out above, there’s already a bug report. It’s only a week old. Patience is a virtue.

[image] Crash again and again Desktop Support @fdst fix is on the way https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/33362

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