When a website opens a new tab, it opens to the last one inside a group instead of besides the father tab

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Description of the issue: Website opening a new tab will make the new tab the last one in tab group

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Open an website with “open with new window option”
  2. Let the website open something inside a new window, it would open a new tab inside the group
  3. The tab will become the last one in group(you have to scroll to the most right in the tabs bar on the bottom to see the new opened tab)

Expected result: New tab opened besides the father tab, to the right

Brave Version( check About Brave): Brave - Nightly 1.78.58, Chromium 135.0.7049.26

Mobile Device details: Samsung s20

Additional Information: I had a Brave browser(original) with over 10k tabs inside a group which eventually one day broke the app and re-installing would not fix at all… I have synchronized everything from that browser, which later I have deleted the browser. Which every time I restart the browser, it would open my tabs into something else, and I have to use the “back” button to revert it back

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Same here after updating to the latest version today (Brave 1.77.95, Chromium 135.0.7049.52). It’s driving me crazy that tab groups are now opening new tabs at the end of the group instead of to the right of the tab it was opened from like it used to before the update.

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I just updated Brave mobile for Android and I’m having the same weird behavior. If I’m on Google, and tap a link, as long as I have my Google settings set to “open results in new window” it always opens the link right next to the tab I’m googling in (“father tab” is an excellent description). Now, I tap a link, and it opens all the way at the end of the tab group! I’ve started opening a brand new tab group for every Google search, which is incredibly annoying.

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Update: just updated Brave mobile browser (android) and checked, and this issue is still driving me bonkers. If this was a deliberate change, I cannot fathom who thought it was a good idea. If a tab group has 30 tabs, and I tap a link that opens in new window (aka tab in mobile brave), it should open right next to the tab I tapped the link in. Not all the way at the other end of the tab group! Goodness.

If it isn’t a deliberate change, can someone suggest a settings change that’ll fix it?