Closing a parent tab causes all the child tabs to close

Yundin

Enable nested vertical tabs
Hide sidebar
Open a few links in a new tab (with cmd+click)
Close a tab you are on

Expected behavior: parent tab is closed, child tabs are preserved and shifted in accordance to settings.
Actual behavior: Parent tab is closed, all child tabs are closed.

I get the expected behavior when the sidebar is not hidden or if I manually expand the tab tree, as shown in the video:

Version 0.99.135.0.1-beta (WebKit 622.1.15.19.2)

Sonoma (14)

laiz

Hey! Thanks for the report. I was able to reproduce this behavior and I agree it isn't ideal. Looks like tab trees are created in a collapsed state when the sidebar is not shown and the user has no way of knowing this.

Therefore, the ideal behavior would probably be to have tab trees automatically expand even when opened while the sidebar is closed.

I don't recall a discussion about what should happen when the parent tab of a collapsed tab tree is closed but I assume it is intended to have it close all child tabs as well. The wording in Settings → Tabs → When closing an expanded tab seems to support this assumption.

Yundin

You're right and I agree that it's fine to close all the children tabs in a collapsed state
Then the issue is more about creating a collapsed tree when the sidebar is hidden, which is not ideal

Yannick

Hey, thanks for your message

Some UX aspects will be reviewed soon, and this is one of them. Thank you 🙂