Shields is disabled on sites when it's opened in a new background tab

Description

Shields is disabled on sites when it’s opened in a new background tab

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open any GH issue
2. Ctrl+click on any links to open in new tab
3. Switch to the newly opened tabs in background, shields look disabled, can’t click on it but shows blocked count
4. Reload page fixes it

Actual result:

Expected result:

Shields should never be disabled unless user disables it

Reproduces how often:

Easy

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.25.70 Chromium: 91.0.4472.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	1cecd5c8a856bc2a5adda436e7b84d8d21b339b6-refs/branch-heads/4472@{#1246}
OS	Linux

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Maybe not checked
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

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

Miscellaneous Information:

@iefremov also mentioned he reproduced it but not sure about steps

[srirambv]

Console logs the following error when a tab is open in background.

[1972:1972:0611/082452.532794:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "[Shields]: Can't request shields panel data. Error: No tab url specified", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/out/brave_extension_background.bundle.js (1)
[1972:1972:0611/082452.533031:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] "Unchecked runtime.lastError: Tabs cannot be edited right now (user may be dragging a tab).", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/_generated_background_page.html (0)

Trying to open dev tools causes shields to be come active again.

[oviniciusfeitosa]

Same problem here.

Ubuntu 22.04
Brave Browser 101.1.38.109