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Offer setting to disable tab groups

See original GitHub issue

Description

Tab groups are annoying and I want a setting to turn them off.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Right click a link
  2. Select “Open in New Tab”
  3. Be annoyed at the hideous purple color on your tabs and the massive whole-tab width label

Actual result:

Screenshot from 2019-09-28 23-23-36

Expected result:

Screenshot from 2019-09-28 23-25-21

Reproduces how often:

Every time without fail

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	0.72.56 Chromium: 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)
Revision	58c425ba843df2918d9d4b409331972646c393dd-refs/branch-heads/3865@{#830}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 7.7.299.11
Flash	(Disabled)
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/usr/lib/brave-nightly-bin/brave --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --disable-chrome-google-url-tracking-client --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --enable-features=NewExtensionUpdaterService,WebUIDarkMode,SimplifyHttpsIndicator --disable-features=AudioServiceOutOfProcess,AutofillServerCommunication,LookalikeUrlNavigationSuggestionsUI,UnifiedConsent --flag-switches-begin --allow-insecure-localhost --extension-content-verification=enforce --load-media-router-component-extension=1 --pull-to-refresh=2 --enable-features=NewExtensionUpdaterService,WebUIDarkMode,SimplifyHttpsIndicator,CloudPrinterHandler,HistoryManipulationIntervention,IntentPicker,LazyFrameLoading,LazyImageLoading,MarkHttpAs,NativeNotifications,OmniboxMaterialDesignWeatherIcons,OmniboxRichEntitySuggestions,OmniboxSpeculativeServiceWorkerStartOnQueryInput,OmniboxSuggestionTransparencyOptions,OmniboxUIExperimentHideSteadyStateUrlPathQueryAndRef,OmniboxUIExperimentShowSuggestionFavicons,ParallelDownloading,SaveEditedPDFForm,ScrollableTabStrip,TabGroups,WebRtcHideLocalIpsWithMdns --disable-features=AudioServiceOutOfProcess,AutofillServerCommunication,LookalikeUrlNavigationSuggestionsUI,UnifiedConsent,AutomaticPasswordGeneration,HappinessTrackingSurveysForDesktop,WebRtcRemoteEventLog --flag-switches-end --
Executable Path	/usr/lib/brave-nightly-bin/brave
Profile Path	/home/wolf/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Variations	2729b628-70ea8f25

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Haven’t tried
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Haven’t tried
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? Haven’t tried
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? No (well maybe?)

Miscellaneous Information:

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

2reactions
iefremovcommented, Sep 30, 2019

For some reason, TabGroups are enabled from the command line (see brave://version info) above. Hopefully, field trials are not involved.

1reaction
Valinwolfcommented, Sep 30, 2019

@rebron Thank I’ll try that when I get home @bsclifton nope, I just updated brave-nightly-bin from AUR and it was there.

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