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 t…

Sadly, i don’t know how difficult readding this flag is, but it’s a deal breaker, i’ll 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 b…

Same issue. 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.

Perplexity.ai reports: What changed Chromium removed the experimental “tab scrolling” flags (and related options like “tab scrolling with dragging” and overflow indicators), so any browser that simply follows upstream loses them when updating to that engine version. Brave 1.86, which uses Chromi…

Thanks all. I’ve opened this issue for tracking https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/52045 . As noted above, this is an upstream chromium change.

This is terribly unusable [Скриншот 16-01-2026 143908]

It’s NOT just people “who love to load up their tab bar”, 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???

I’m a bit tired of being kind (yes, I’ve been kind). Direct your anger to Google, it’s their Chromium team who made the change. You’re barking up the wrong tree. [image] Bence: but these are necessary for certain workflow points. [image] Bence: 600+ tabs :sweat_smile:

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…

Newest update broke tab scrolling

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DaveyJay January 16, 2026, 7:10pm 12

This seriously needs fixing soon. Not only are the tabs uselessly tiny now if you have a lot, but those that don’t 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.

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Newest update broke tab scrolling

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