Tab stays in group after all other tabs in that group had been closed

[jeyjai]

Description

Not sure if its a bug or just a design decision but i often open a bunch of tabs in group, browse them and then close them from the bar at the bottom, and i often end up with tons of tab groups with only a single tab in them, so wouldn't it make more sense to have brave automatically remove the group when there's only one tab left?

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a page
2. Open any link in new tab in group
3. Close one of the tabs in either the bottom bar or the tab window

Actual result

Group stays active even with only one tab left

Expected result

For brave to close the group when there's only one tab left and have that tab separately like other non grouped tabs

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version

Brave 1.70.117, Chromium 129.0.6668.59

Device

• Brand/model: Samsung Galaxy A52s
• Android version: Android 14

Channel information

• release (stable)
• beta
• nightly

Reproducibility

• with Brave Shields disabled
• with Brave Rewards disabled
• in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

No response

[RomanPro100]

I can't express my anger enough about how I hate this. This has to be a bug, and the team doesn't seem to be fixing it. Why would you ever need 1 tab in a group??? If you want to make a group, just drag another tab on top of it, smh :/

[Brave-Matt]

+1 from Community:
https://community.brave.com/t/close-a-tab-group-when-theres-only-one-remaining-tab/574682/3

[anrojaslat]

This behavior is a no-brainer for me. I hope it gets implemented soon!

[kyungSong]

I second this. What's even more annoying is there is no obvious way of closing the group (and leave the tab alive) manually.

You have to click group -> click hamburger button -> click select tabs menu -> click tab -> click hamburger menu again -> click ungroup menu to ungroup a single tab from a single tab group (in mobile)

[bsclifton]

Thanks for reporting - cc: @timchilds @SergeyZhukovsky @deeppandya

I've noticed this too - it only seems to have happened in the last 3-4 months. Might be a regression in upstream code

[LadyLyndis]

Chiming in to say I would also really love to see this issue fixed.

@kyungSong Thanks for posting the workaround! It's annoying to have so many steps but better than nothing.

[jeyjai]

I second this. What's even more annoying is there is no obvious way of closing the group (and leave the tab alive) manually.

You have to click group -> click hamburger button -> click select tabs menu -> click tab -> click hamburger menu again -> click ungroup menu to ungroup a single tab from a single tab group (in mobile)

Its faster to open the group, hold down on the tab and drag it down to the bottom of the group that says "remove tab and delete group", that will close the group but keep the tab

[kyungSong]

@jeyjai holy cow when I read remove tabs and close groups I thought it would remove the tab (from browser) and close the group so I didn't even try. That is confusing wording

Thank you.