The tab close button should be on the left side of a tab

[bsclifton]

Carried over from brave/browser-laptop#8341

Some users have requested that the close tab button (the X) be on the left hand side instead (similar to Safari). If this feature was added, it could work similar to how Opera does it: have the favicon turn into an X when moused-over

This might be useful to implement as a configuration setting (defaulted to off)

[SimonAB]

Agreed. Having to switch to a tab to close it creates unnecessary friction. This suggestion is an elegant solution that would vastly improve tab management.

[Kwadz]

Is it still on the roadmap?

[bsclifton]

@Kwadz it's still being tracked, but it hasn't been prioritized (yet). So not on the roadmap (yet)

[unbreak]

Still waiting :/

[Kwadz]

@bsclifton, would you be able to provide some guidance to implement this feature?

[bsclifton]

@Kwadz sure! I'd get started with the following:

1. Get brave-core cloned, compiling, and building
2. Check out src/chrome/browser/ui/views/tabs/tab.cc. The Tab::Layout() method might be where you want to start
3. Edit the Chromium source directly until you get what you'd like
4. We can look at doing this in a more clean way- like the chromium_src overrides that we have. Basically, you'd be able to replace the Layout method with a custom implementation
5. Once done cleanly, we can make this configurable (ex: create a setting on brave://settings under appearance)