Since latest update, 90% of tabs that were in one of my groups just disappeared (I had like ~60 tabs, now I only have 7), thanks Brave! They’re completely gone, I tried restarting Brave, restarting my computer, checking in-depth where they could’ve gone, but nothing! Thanks Brave!
Brave Version: v 1.75.175
Same, I had around 5 tab groups with around 80, 45, 30, 20 and 20 tabs and now most of them are empty or have some random 6-7 tabs left in them. Luckily i have a recent bookmark of all the tabs but even when i try to open them the tabs still dont show up (even though i can see them in the bookmarks). How can i fix this please help.
Same happened to me. Next day when I had more tabs added to my groups disappeared again, avoid putting tabs in groups until they fix this.
Can anyone here who encountered this confirm whether or not you have these two toggles on in Settings --> Appearance?
Additionally, are you using Sync at this time? If so, do you have either of these options toggled “on”?
I can confirm I had all these settings on. I suspect the sync - save tab groups might have done it.
All my tab groups suddenly only had empty new tabs [eep for trying to deal with open work issue now]. When I disabled syncing tabs, suddenly, the tab groups vanished. I think I’ll leave this off for now…
Great!
I lost all my research work due to the update!
I can’t find it in history as brave keeps only 3 months of browsing history.
What should I do now? How can I recover my research?
Even better now, I disabled the sync saved tabs, the browser crashed and I lost my opened tabs in the last hour.
The toggles were turned on by default, and I’m personally not using Sync.
Also I just got signed out of all my Google accounts overnight, great.
I had the exact same problem, all the grouped tabs are now replaced by empty tabs. Fortunately, I had an extension that saves session when the browser is closed. But I just found another way to restore the tabs individually. Just click the return to previous page button on each empty tab and it’ll restore it.
great, another tab group disaster, lost 150 tabs just like that, again!
Thank you so much, this worked for me to get them back.
Whoever checked that code in without testing it first should be fired. Ridiculous.
All of my non-grouped tabs are still here, but my groups are long gone. My settings are exactly as described by Mattches, and I wasn’t even given empty tab groups. They’re just plain gone.
If all of my groups were synced by Brave, then checking fixed code in should fix it, correct?
The last good version I had running was 1.75.51.
I lost my tab groups and recovered them. They were in the tab strip, not saved like bookmarks, so this might not apply to everyone. I’ll post my actions and observations because it might help track down a bug:
The window that was restored when I opened Brave had no tab groups in the tab strip. A window I restored manually (Ctrl+Shift+T) had all the tab groups that were present when I closed Brave last night.
In the manually-restored window, the tab groups were expanded even though I left them closed, and the tabs were reloaded even though I have an extension which stops tabs being reloaded when they are restored (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dhgmempheoefomjckiihacjicbecjbae).
Here’s the relevant code from that extension’s service worker:
async function discardRestoredTab(tab)
{
if (tab.status !== "unloaded") return;
if (tab.pinned || tab.active || !tab.autoDiscardable) return;
const opt = await chrome.storage.local.get({discardTabsAtStartup: true});
if (!opt.discardTabsAtStartup) return;
chrome.tabs.discard(tab.id);
}
chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener(discardRestoredTab);
As an experiment I Ctrl+Shift+T multiple times and the browser eventually stopped returning anything from history, including any lost tabs.
I’m still wondering where that data went!?!
This is a fine time to suggest a rollback feature for Brave. That way users can keep working when things get broken.
@Floop it only stores the last 25 closed items, so you’d need to do it shortly after opening Brave. You can manage your own rollbacks by backing up the application data.
Edit:
A more convenient way to manage rollbacks is by using the Session Buddy extension.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko
You can manually take a snapshot of your browsing session, or have Session Buddy sit in the background taking snapshots at intervals. I forgot I had it installed, but it did in fact record all the tabs which failed to restore properly yesterday.
The screenshots in the Chrome web store don’t show the extension’s snapshot functionality. Here’s a screenshot of its side panel
I am aware of the “time limit” in effect, but thanks for the detailed description! I’ve been browsing using other browsers (ick) to preserve my data in the meantime.
For those of us not using extensions or plug-in software for saving tabs and such, when will this be fixed? Will this be fixed?
If you haven’t cleared the cookies and didn’t make change to the window browser itself, click CTRL+SHIFT+T and it will create a new window with those gone tabs restored OR click the return to previous page button on each empty tab and it’ll restore the tabs.
Can’t believe we need to use extensions to make the browser work properly, but thanks! This is great
