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Description of the issue:
Every time o close the browser and reopen, it comes in private mode and all tabs I had opened in regular mode goes away.
This started happening few releases ago. Two months more or less.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Open brave on iPad in regular mode, open few tabs or just one,
Close the browser
Reopen
Expected result:
Expected result would be to reopen the tabs that were opened before closing.
Instead of opening in private mode. Brave Version( check About Brave):
Go to Brave’s Settings → Brave Shields & Privacy. Do you have Private Browsing Only toggled on? If so, that’s your issue.
Beyond that, Brave doesn’t open Private by default. So I’d be curious what you’ve done otherwise.
An alternative as well, if it’s opening Private by default, is you could go to Settings → Private Tabs and choose Keep Private Tabs to be enabled, which will prevent tabs from closing when you exit the browser.
@Mattches@michal would either of you have any answers on this issue. I can’t seem to replicate it and am not sure what might be going on that Brave would be opening in Private even though they say settings aren’t up for that. And as a result, they are losing whatever open tabs they had.
Will have to reach out to the iOS team as this is new to me. Would it be possible for either of you (@Scorponok or @lflucena) to get a short screen recording of the behavior that I can share with iOS team.
For the recording, just open the browser, create a few standard tabs, close the browser, then re-open it so that we can see the standard tabs being discarded and the browser re-launching in Private browsing mode.
@Scorponok,
Apologies — I’ve gone ahead and upgraded your user level and you should be able to upload now. If not, you can always use imgur.com and simply share the link here.
Apologies for the wait time here — digging into this now. Just to confirm, the Private browsing only option (Menu --> Settings --> Brave Shields & Privacy) is not enabled when you’re seeing this issue — correct?
Have this same problem. It always opens in Private mode even though it’s turned off. If you go to Settings>Brave Shields & Privacy and turn Private Browsing Only ON, click OK to clear cache, then turn it OFF it will miraculously bring back the non-private window with all your open tabs.
Confirmed another workaround, should this not work.
Open Brave, switch to whichever mode you want to come up automatically, then open a link (shouldn’t matter what, I used a random Wiki link) in another window. Fully close both windows to test, Brave should now launch normally.
Edit: Looks like I kind of lied there. Worked fine and restored my tabs the first time, subsequent close / open seem to be pulling from completely different states though. In a loop right now where it’s opening Private → Test normal tab → Test normal tab → my normal non-private tabs → loop restarts. Guessing the multi-window bug mentioned above saves some form of app state that’s then used to open the app afterwards, but doesn’t properly clear on exit?
