The title says it all. Sometimes by accident the wrong tab is closed, either because there’s a lot of them up top and not always I can point the mouse in the exact spot, or because the mouse misbehaves and clicks twice with one button press (closing 2 tabs instead of one).
Anyway pinned tabs are supposed to be protected, at least that’s how it was supposed to be. To close them we have/had to unpin them first.
Is this a Brave bug, or a chromium new policy?
@Agent_Suave not sure I can see what you’re talking about. Like in testing, I have two pinned tabs. You can see those below:
It doesn’t matter how I click on them, I can’t close them. There’s no X or Close button type of thing to do so. In order for it to go away, I have to unpin.
And even if I click on another tab and try to choose Close all other tabs, it’s grayed out and can’t be selected:
About the only thing I can see is if you completely exit the window, at which point it can go away. It seems to only remember the last window closed. So if I close my window with pinned tabs and then close a window with no pinned tabs, opening the next window has nothing pinned. So I do see that as a potential issue. But it doesn’t seem like this is what you’re mentioning.
That said, why don’t you include more information about your situation? I mean, which OS are you on? What version of Brave? Any pictures or videos of this happening…
@Mattches wanted to tag in to see if you are catching anything on this I’m not. On older posts, OP mentioned being on Windows 10 so I’m assuming that’s what they still are on.
Other thing I learned about pinned tabs vanishing when closing window seems to be a Chromium issue as it happens on Chrome as well. But I wouldn’t think it should be intended. Guessing would have to look for changes upstream on that.
To be clear, I’m referencing how if we close the window with pinned tabs first and then close another window with no pinned tabs, Brave and Chrome will have discarded any pinned tabs.
I’m not quite sure what OP is saying they are clicking and how it’s supposedly closing pinned tabs. 
Hi,
True that pinned tabs have no X, but other than that, if you either:
the tab will always close, pinned or not, and I believe that’s not how it should work. Otherwise a pinned tab “superpower” will be just moving to the left once it’s pinned, and have a reduced size on the tab bar — for someone with many tabs open, not even the latter will happen, not when all tabs already have that smaller size. Which brings the question “what the point then?”.
Pinned tabs have to be protected from closing, that’s why they’re pinned, to be there no matter what. Unless you unpin them of course.
I have Windows 10, Brave 1.75.178
@Agent_Suave not quite sure I understand what the issue here is.
But what if you want to close the tab that is pinned…? Yes, you have it pinned for a reason but if you no longer want it pinned then how would you close it? Pinning tabs is an organizational tool and contrary to what you said, they are not “protected” from being closed. If you first had to un-pin them in order to close them, we (or any browser who implemented such a feature) would get a flurry of users who are [understandably] annoyed at the extra steps required to simply close a tab.
I just tested the pinned tab behavior in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and MS Edge and this is how they all function. Tabs get pinned and the x to close button disappears, but you can still close them via Ctrl + W, right-click then Close from the context menu, middle-clicking on the mouse wheel (which may or may not work depending on how you have your mouse controls setup).
Well, when I finally want it closed, I unpin it first. No big deal.
This is what Vivaldi does, and what other browsers do, or did.
No, you wouldn’t have angry users, because they would know that tab is different, and that they did something to it. They would be angry if that happened with normal tabs, and then they wouldn’t know what could be causing that behavior.
The pined is (or was a while ago) the same as sticky (I won’t go as far as say ‘locked’, but it’s close).
However, if almost all browsers now normally close even pinned tabs, that’s because that trend became mainstream I guess, and there’s not much use in me trying to put the way it was before. But it didn’t use to be like that.
EDIT: I found another browser where you don’t close pinned tabs just like that: Opera GX, and I’m betting, also normal Opera. Because that was the normal behavior of pinned tabs.
As someone who has worked in tech/user support for a very long time, I can assure you people would be upset by this.
Additionally, Opera works the same way Brave and the other browsers I’ve tested does:
Then just Opera GX, I tested it. Well, it works partially, ctrl+W and middle mouse button don’t close a pinned tab, but right click and choosing ‘close’ does. And when in normal tabs, all of the above close those tabs, so it’s not like I don’t have those shortcuts configured like that.
I think the ideal for Brave would be just that: Accidental Ctrl+W and middle-mouse clicks would be ignored for pinned tabs, but a right-click on it and then a left click on ‘Close’, which are too many steps to be an accident, would close the pinned tab, because at that point it’s obvious the user actually wants to close it. It wouldn’t need the unpin operation first, but also wouldn’t be closed by accident.
It’s just a suggestion, but I believe it would be the best of both worlds.
I know exactly what he’s talking about.
Apple iPad pro here.
Say I have a half dozen tabs open, browsing various news sites, every once in a while I’ll do a ctrl+W on one and watch in horror as ALL the tabs close in sequence leaving me with nothing which, depending how long I dig into my history I can reconstruct/reopen but usually, no.
That’s the ONLY reason I keep using Safari as I have tabs open in the app that are YEARS old and this NEVER happens.
That’s weird, could it be a stuck key?
I assume you’re using some external keyboard for your ipad.
Yes. It might be just that. I’ll poke around and see if I can pull/clean the key tops.
Thanks.
