At GitHub:
“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/21556#issuecomment-1067224433”
Where “bsclifton” wrote:
"Thanks for the feedback folks - we’re discussing internally. There unfortunately isn’t just a flag and we’d need to keep and maintain a bunch of patches to keep this functionality (and each Chromium upgrade we’d need to maintain those patches)
We’ll share once we have more information. Thanks for your patience"
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And lately
“https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/21556#issuecomment-1068853324”
“bsclifton” again:
“It may take several days to work through this (we’ll need to re-home portions of this code and find clean ways to patch it in). We’ll keep you all updated”
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That seems to be a good indication, of interest in finding a way to restore the tab display and be able to maintain it.
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