Started up the Brave browser to find out that I can no longer scroll through my tabs and any tabs that go beyond the limit are just inaccessible in the top bar, along with the disappearance of the scroll arrows.
Previous version when it worked was 1.85.120
Current version 1.86.139 seems to break this.
Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
Update Brave (without it you asking if you want to)
Open lots of tabs
Newer tabs become inaccessible / no scrolling
Expected result: Scrolling should allow all tabs to be accessible at all times.
Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.86.139
Additional Information: Iāve never asked for the update.
Yes this follows Chrome doing the same thing. If I cannot scroll tabs, I will no longer use Brave at all. Too bad as I have used it for several years as my second often used browser. No longer will use it at all
Interesting this only just happened to me today on Jan 16th
Sadly, i donāt know how difficult readding this flag is, but itās a deal breaker, iāll revert the update and wait for now, but the tabs are unusable without tab scrolling if you have more than 20 of them open.
I also tried vertical tabs and i find them unusable, for some reason, scrolling them is broken for me, possibly related to tab groups? I might make a separate thread about the weird vertical tab behaviour, but itās pointless for now as i reverted to a previous version already.
Iāll have to find a different browser if that doesnāt get fixed
Fact someone allowed for that update and it was done without asking if i want to update says all i need. After years of using Brave im uninstalling it. Browser that has no support for tab scrolling is absolutely useless.
Chromium removed the experimental ātab scrollingā flags (and related options like ātab scrolling with draggingā and overflow indicators), so any browser that simply follows upstream loses them when updating to that engine version.
Brave 1.86, which uses Chromium 144, no longer exposes those flags and therefore no longer keeps tabs at a fixed width with a scrollable strip.
Why Chrome and Brave both lost it
Chrome 131 started breaking or changing traditional tab scrolling in favor of new tab organization concepts, and the underlying Chromium code has since removed the tabāscrolling feature entirely.
Brave 1.86 moved to that newer Chromium base without carrying an independent fork of the removed feature, so it inherits the same limitation as Chrome.
This seriously needs fixing soon. Not only are the tabs uselessly tiny now if you have a lot, but those that donāt fit in the window are no longer able to be accessed. I have a LOT of tabs open that I use all the time, and the update that just got pushed to me made them extremely difficult to work with anymore.
It is indeed a Chromium level change (meaning every browser based on Chromium like Edge, Chrome also are losing this flag). They are going to work to see what they can do. But please remember, issues are going to be worked in priority, so:
I agree, but do keep in mind, there are other issues such as crashes, and more severe bugs than a UI issue for people who love to load up their tab bar, so patience will be required.
Being Brave opened a ticket just 3 hours ago, gotta give it time.
Itās NOT just people āwho love to load up their tab barā, but these are necessary for certain workflow points. Luckily, I leaned down my tabs recently, but how could I dig out my once 600+ tabs with this (unasked for) update???
Is it a human decision to go with the stewpid lemmings? Is it carved in stone to upgrade to the new Chromium? If a new car would have debuted with sheetmetal windows just because the supplier delivered them (oh, it the new trendy thing ACCORDING TO US), I suppose quite a lot of customers would voice an unfriendly message towards the parent company, citing female ancestors of the ones who OKād that decisionā¦
You can laugh, no one interested in that either. But those who work with swarms of tabs and they have absolutely no chance to dig them out, will not be happy with your brewhaha smiley. Reacting to a problem requires some degree of IQ/EQ/empathy. For ego plays there is a fine tool called the mirror.
Iām one of those people who habitually run with LOTS of tabs. The difference, Iām guessing, is that most of mine donāt get loaded until I need them and usually get automatically unloaded not too long after theyāre no longer in foreground. Also, most of them are in collapsed tab groups. Not being able to scroll the tabstrip to where I can see my tab group headings and expand them is borderline catastrophic for me.
So, my question is: Which āofficial/āstable releaseā version number of Brave does one have to revert to in order to get back scrollable tabs? I started scrolling through Braveās GitHub Release section and I couldnāt figure out how to filter out the many, many, many non-responsive releases. [Sorry: Iām not a GitHub guy ā¦ nor really a Brave guy, for that matter. Brave is just my primary browser because it works with the modern Web and it protects my privacy.]
I wonder what new ātab organization conceptsā Googleās crack design gurus have in mind for chromium/āChrome. Will I love them as much as I loved Windows 8 Fisher-Price āmenu organization conceptsā? (In case youāre unsure whether Iām being sarcastic, I still run Open-Shell in Windows 10 and 11, and my preferred Linux desktop environments are KDE Plasma and Cinnamon. Iām old enough that the effort of learning most new tricks is just not going to pay off. I just want to get my computing/ābrowsing done without having to master a new paradigm.)
Many thanks to anyone whoās kind enough to chime in with that Brave version number!
Before doing anything, make sure to backup your profile, also temporarily save your passwords if you have any (reverting will log you out everywhere and remove all saved passwords).
Iāve managed to downgrade by simply downloading the appropriate archive and overwriting the Brave files. If you want me to tell you which one, you have to first give information about your OS. Make sure to disable auto-updates after that. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5576
Primarily, Iām only angry because the forcing the annoying auto-updates on everyone was a choice made by the devs of Brave. They have been extremely defensive about that decision.
Its not issue for you, for me ITS HUGE ISSUE. Pretty much uninstalled brave and went to firefox. I need to have scrolltab support now for my work, not in month or never. Could not care less what caused it.
Not to mention they FORCED stupid auto updates no one wanted so its on them. They lost me as āclientā at that point.
NO. BRAVE team FORCED update. BRAVE team did not made separate fork since update is huge.
You seem not to understand real world kid. I need tab scrolling for work, i dont have 200+ tabs open for fun but out of necessity and no i cannot wait, i have job to do.
