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Preview for a hovered over tab is not shown when `Card with preview` is selected in `brave://settings/appearance`

See original GitHub issue

Currently when hovered over a tab for a visited site (not the currently active tab) either vertical or horizontal tab, thumbnail of the tab is not displayed. This functionality was tested in 1.44.x -https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9906. It appears to be broken in 1.45.x.

Description

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install 1.46.73
  2. launch Brave
  3. visit cnbc.com
  4. open brave://settings/appearance
  5. switch the setting to Card with preview
  6. hovered over a tab (not the currently active tab)

Actual result:

thumbnail is not shown (either vertical tab or horizontal tab) Note: this issue is reproducible for horizontal tab as well in 1.45.x

horizontal tab vertical tab
image image

Expected result:

a thumbnail and preview of the tab should be shown (1.44.x) image

Reproduces how often:

Easily

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 1.46.73 Chromium: 107.0.5304.62 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 1eec40d3a5764881c92085aaee66d25075c159aa-refs/branch-heads/5304@{#942}
OS | Windows 11 Version 21H2 (Build 22000.1098)

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

@sangwoo108 @rebron

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created a year ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

3reactions
kjozwiakcommented, Oct 25, 2022

We should try getting this into the 1.45.x maintenance release 👍 CCing @rebron

0reactions
GeetaSarvadnyacommented, Oct 28, 2022

Verification PASSED on

Brave | 1.45.116 Chromium: 107.0.5304.91 (Official Build) (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 3d5948960d62418160796d5831a4d2d7d6c90fa8-refs/branch-heads/5304@{#1097}
OS | Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.2130)

  • Confirmed that thumbnail and preview of the tab is shown when Card with preview is selected in Tab hover mode settings under brave://settings/appearance
  • Confirmed that the thumbnail and preview of the tab is shown for both horizontal tab and vertical tab patterns
  • Confirmed that the thumbnail and preview of the tab works fine in both the clean and upgraded profiles

Clean profile

Example Example Example Example
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Upgrade profile

Install 1.45.113 and select Card with preview in Tab hover mode settings under brave://settings/appearance, open bunch of sites and hover over the tabs, observed that the tab preview is NOT shown, upgrade the profile to 1.45.116 and ensured that the thumbnail and preview of the tab is shown

1.45.113 1.45.116
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