These settings are great, and make the browser so much more usable!
One quirk that I do miss is that I’d like to have my pinned tabs stay always visible, separate from the scrollable list, same as firefox used to do back when it was a browser.
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Having used these settings for a while, there’s a couple of things that this doesn’t do well:
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It should scroll the scrollable tab bar to ensure that the current tab is always visible. If I have many tabs open it can be a chore to even determine which tab I’m looking at.
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Some sane keyboard shortcuts for switching tabs. As far as I can tell, in brave, ctrl-pgup is “randomly switch tab that I haven’t had open in ages which is almost definitely not the tab I want”, and ctrl-pgdn is “go to the tab I was at 1 second ago”. While I agree that “go to the tab I was in 10 seconds ago” is useful, it shouldn’t be on the default keyboard shortcuts that pretty much every other tabbed application uses for “previous/next” tab.
Yes. Thankfully, there’s a super light extension called Rearrange Tabs that does just this.
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I wanted to request this feature, the worst thing about Brave is the shape of the tab.
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Maybe this belongs to a Theme section ? With some stuff like bg color, edge color, round and padding/margin for tabs.
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Honestly one of my major asks. I’m a huge fan of both the browser and search engine. But on Mac the tabs are so ugly. They’re so cramped and crude in their vertical lines.
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Workspaces would help here I think. Or better group separations (add an icon for a group instead of naming it?)
I also went ahead and created a new feature request to show an icon as tab group name instead of a full text title: https://community.brave.com/t/emoji-icon-as-tab-group-name
Floating tabs are sure to be controversial, but I like them too. They also improved the tab grouping indicator. Looks better than Chrome.
I for one (and others 1, 2, 3), really dislike this new tab design.
Please do not get rid of the old design and offer a choice between the old attached design and this new “floating” design.
I could probably come to terms with the floating design, but i really dislike that the topbar AND the tabs themselfs have increased in size:
- New Topbar is now 58px in height, previously it was 52px
- New Tab is now 48px in height, previously it was 45px
In general i feel it’s too tall all in all. If it were slimmer i would have less qualms with it. 46px would be ideal height for the topbar (atleast for windows).
Instead of just complaining about it, here is the current design, in comparison to a mockup of the 46px design:
Current Design:
46px Mockup:
Legibility is not hurt and usability shouldn’t be hurt by those couple pixels either, but it surely makes it look a lot sleeker.
I dislike the current design enough, that i would probably start evaluating other browsers if this current design is enforced. For now i can get around it by disabling it via the flag: brave://flags/#brave-horizontal-tabs-update.
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