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Description of the issue: When selecting a recent tab to reopen it doesn’t place the tab back in the same place
How can this issue be reproduced?
Have several tabs open in your browser. Pick any tab but the very last one to close.
Go to menu and choose Recent Tab
Select the tab you just closed
Expected result: Tab to open where it was in relation to other tabs
**Brave Version( check About Brave):**Brave 1.85.117, Chromium 143.0.7499.146
@CityguyUSA Once a tab is fully closed and cleared from active memory, its “index” (its position number in the row) is often discarded to reorder the remaining tabs. When you pull it from the History list, it is treated as a fresh navigation.
If you close a tab at index 5, and then you move your other tabs around or open three new ones, “index 5” no longer means the same thing. From a programming perspective, Chromium (the engine behind Chrome and Brave) treats a click in the History menu as a Request to Navigate.
To change this, the browser would need to pass a “Target Index” variable through the entire history system, which adds complexity for a feature that most users might find jarring if a tab suddenly “jumped” into the middle of their current work.