Vertical tabs x close button on the left side

Brave Feature Requests Desktop Requests
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This is just a tiny change i think would improve the vertical tabs.
Current State: To close the tab it needs to be expanded, expansion only happens when hovering the tab icon and than you have to move the mouse over the x to close it. Switching x button to the left of the tab icon would allow for faster closing of tabs, for Desktops it might be barely noticeable but on a laptop with a touch pad would be an improvement.

Since this might be locked to the UI used on the horizontal tabs, an alternative would be to hide the tab text in vertical and have the tittle show in a “balloon”. This way the x would be right next to the icon reducing the space taken during vertical tab expansion.

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I was about to create a topic asking for something on the same regard.

The vertical tabs feature is great, I took a couple of days to get used tho, but there is no turning back for me, I just love it.

Closing a tab with your mouse or touch pad has being a nightmare because of this expanding feature and the “x” button being placed on the far right side. UI wise is the perfect placement but UX wise it isn’t.

My improvement suggestion: A “quick exit” feature. When the user hovers over a tab and press ctrl + left mouse click, it closes.

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Agreed. But also for horizontal tabs, close button makes more sense being on the left side