I find having a close button on each tab very annoying, and it frequently makes me close tabs accidentally. I’d like an option to remove tab close buttons. When a thread was created requesting that Google implement this option for Chrome a few years back, they arrogantly just said “no” because it would “make the product experience worse” or something. So I thought I’d see how the Brave team reacted instead. Could you guys implement this feature?
Oh yeah, I never thought about this but it would be useful. I close 100% of the tabs with CTRL/CMD+W. Well, except for the ones that I close against my will. As OP has mentioned, it’s easy to accidentally close a tab via the “close” buttons (especially if there are many narrow tabs).
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I created an account to post this feature request.
I close my tabs using Middle mouse button or Ctrl+W. The little close button takes up unreasonably large area of a very small tab when a lot are open, and I NEVER use it intentionally.
I realize some want to keep it but to me it only causes trouble or wastes time when avoiding it.
I don’t know why I bother even checking in on here any longer. All the major beefs I have with the browser are completely ignored. These are basic features found in so many competitors yet lacking here.
I’m getting the feeling this is merely a place to vent. It’s sad that things like this can’t get fixed.
When I am in a hurry I am always closing the tabs by mistake with the X. When I actually want to close tabs, control-X is much easier. The close button on the tabs is nothing but a nuisance, a booby trap.
OH HEY! YOU WANTED TO SELECT A TAB, BUT HAHA, WE CLOSED IT FOR YOU.
Now hopefully the website is built such that ‘unclose last tab’ takes me back to where I was. But it doesn’t always.
@b_ravebrow had a similar conversation with someone yesterday. You may want to check my reply to them as a lot of it applies to what you’re mentioning as well.
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@Cosi You really should spend time going back to older things and perhaps even Github to see all the changes that have been made. There are a lot of things that have taken priority and ways that the browser has been made better. They actually are working on adding this functionality. They rolled it out on iOS, which they often use as a testing ground. I will try to reach out to ask when they’ll be looking to add it to Android. Again, try to browse through things. It’s good to actually read st…