Pinned Tabs are very thin now


**Description of the issue:
Pinned tabs are now very thin.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Open Brave for Desktop on WIndows 11
  2. Pin a tab
  3. See that Pinned tab is very thin

Expected result:
Normal pinned tab width
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.80.113
Additional Information:
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I have the same problem, see the attached image. I use Save Pinned Tabs plugin but it doesn’t look like the cause of the problem.
thintabs

I’m also seeing this.
Ubuntu 24.04
Brave 138.1.80.113

Same problem.

I need to mention that I have the “Updated horizontal tabs” flag disabled.

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Enabling that flag fixes the problem, but I just can’t get behind how the pinned tabs look with that setting.

System info:

  • Brave 1.80.115 (Official Build) (arm64)
  • Chromium: 138.0.7204.97
  • macOS 15.5

I can confirm that changing the #brave-horizontal-tabs-update to enabled does make the tabs a reasonable size, but then it uses the (what I find to be) very ugly pill view, and it doesn’t work with many themes. I had that flag disabled, because the old style actually worked, and didn’t take up huge amounts of vertical real-estate.

So while enabling that flag is a work around, it’s not a fix.
This needs to be fixed, not just worked-around.

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The workaround works for me too, but I also really dislike the updated tab design. It was good to have a choice.

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Having the same issue myself. Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac.

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I’m experiencing the same issue too. And I’m in the same boat as others with the new tab design disabled and I’m not willing to enable them.

Brave should just do away with the dumb ugly pill design and make this the default again. Clearly they’re not putting much effort into this design anymore, but the other design is so hilariously bad that I’d absolutely consider using other browsers as my daily driver if I were forced into it. And I think I’m far from the only one that feels that way.

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