Could we please have a shortcut to toggle the expanded view of vertical tabs for those who prefer to navigate the browser via shortcuts?

They already added Keyboard customization to Brave Nightly and they keep expanding the available commands for it. So there is no reason to wait for a shortcut to be implemented, as long as Brave releases the command, it will be accessed through the Commander or as a keyboard shortcut. They have bee…

That’s great and all, but the vertical tabs command is not the same as expanded view of vertical tabs - any ideas where to find the command for that? Also, I tried opening nightly, it crashed on launch :laughing:

Seconding this! Vertical tabs are great, but having to mouse over to see the expanded view adds a lot of friction. A keyboard shortcut that toggles the expanded view would be amazing.

[image] You are all welcome, already available in Nightly 1.55.16+

The “toggle vertical tabs expanded” only toggles permanently collapsed vs permanently expanded (ie, changing viewport width), it does not toggle auto-hide/unhide, like a mouse hover at edge of screen would. A key toggle that behaved exactly like moving mouse to edge of screen would be more useful a…

The shortcut does not seems to work anymore. I have configured the shortcut: [2025_01_04-10_15_46] And I expect it to behave as the “Minimize tabs” button on the vertical tabs sidebar: [2025_01_04-10_16_04] Am I missing something maybe? Version 1.73.104 Chromium: 131.0.6778.204 (Official Bu…

Any news on this? Still seeing this bug on Version 1.76.82 Chromium: 134.0.6998.178 (Official Build)

Looks like they’ve fixed it! :blush:

Toggle Vertical tabs shortcut

Brave Feature Requests

apotenza92 February 12, 2025, 2:51am 9

I’m seeing the same issue. Shortcut only works if the ‘expand independently per window’ feature is disabled. Would be nice if it worked under either condition. There’s a separate issue open now as well: Shortcut not working: Toggle vertical tabs expanded

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Toggle Vertical tabs shortcut

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