In a way, I'm glad Firefox offers List View as a choice for the user. The app's appearance page no longer has the option to disable Tab Groups either, which probably explains why editing the flag doesn't work, the old view mode doesn't exist.īrave users are furious about the change, and have raised their pitchforks over at the app's GitHub repository, the official community forums, and also voiced their concerns about the Grid Layout on reddit. Since Brave Browser relies on the same source code, it too removed said feature from the latest version. I'm not defending Brave, I'm just pointing out where the change began. The Chromium open source project is the reason for this change. But not anymore, even though the flags exist, modifying them does nothing. This used to turn off the grid view, and bring back the good old tab stack mode. Tap on the drop-down menu and change the values for each flag from default to disabled. If you are still on an older version of the app, head to brave://flags and search for Tab Grid Layout, and Tab Groups. Users had the option to disable it by changing a preference, that didn't last long, as Google removed the option to disable tab groups when Chrome 91 was rolled out.īrave browser on the other hand, used to support it until the latest update. This problem began about a year ago, when Google Chrome v88 introduced Grid View for tabs. Why do browser developers keep pushing Grid view as if it is the best option for tabs? Mobile devices have small screens, and hence can only display a limited number of cards at a time, which means the user has to scroll through a longer list of tabs than in stacked view. Though it does not look as good as stacked tabs, but it's better than the grid view. It's an awful way to browse and manage tabs, which is why I use the List view. As a Firefox user, I never really liked the grid layout or the idle tabs for that matter. The above screenshot shows stacked tabs (cascade view) in Brave Browser in an older version of the app.Īnd this is what the new Grid layout looks like in the browser's current version.įirefox users may remember that the grid view was added to the mobile version of the browser in version 84, that was released in December 2020.

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