Brave Appearance Setting Missing

[baranwalabhinav]

Description

The “Appearance” tab under “Settings” is missing in the Brave Browser for Windows. The Settings page lists - Get Started, Appearance, New Tab page and gives settings options for Get Started and New Tab page but nothing for Appearance. Clicking on the appearance tab does nothing too.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to Settings.
2. Click Appearance on the left side list of options.

Actual result:

Expected result:

There should be settings for Appearance after Get Started.

Reproduces how often:

All the time. Easily reproduced.

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.32.106

[rebron]

cc: @GeetaSarvadnya

[GeetaSarvadnya]

@baranwalabhinav : Issue isn't reproducible for me on both clean and upgrade profile in Windows 10 x64. Can you reproduce the issue consistently ?

[baranwalabhinav]

@GeetaSarvadnya Yes. This entire "Appearance" set of settings is missing from my settings. As visible in the screenshot posted below, the tab for "Appearance" gives 0 settings options. This issue exists even after trying to access it with a new profile.

P.S. - "Hardware Acceleration" is disabled and all extensions have been disabled too.

[rebron]

@baranwalabhinav What version of Windows are you running?

[baranwalabhinav]

@rebron Windows 10. i3-4th Gen. 4GB RAM. More than 100GB of hard disk space exists. Nvidia GeForce 820M.

[baranwalabhinav]

@rebron @GeetaSarvadnya
Don't know if this is of any help but do take a look.

[rebron]

cc: @simonhong This looks like it's related to super referral.

[simonhong]

@baranwalabhinav Do you have any changes from brave://flags?
I can repro this if New Tab Page Branded Wallpapers is disabled from brave://flags.

[baranwalabhinav]

@simonhong Great work! The "New Tab Page Branded Wallpapers" flag was disabled! Changing it to default has done the trick! Awesome!!! Thanks!
I believe this issue would be fixed in the next update?

[simonhong]

@baranwalabhinav Nice to find the root cause. Thanks for reporting!
If my fix is merged into current nightly, it will be arrived to you when 1.34 becomes stable. (current stable is 1.32)

[baranwalabhinav]

@simonhong Great! looking to find further bugs to report!

[stephendonner]

Verified PASSED using

Brave	1.35.56 Chromium: 97.0.4692.56 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision	04da6c66398ca50e603cc236a07dc7dfd3bbc750-refs/branch-heads/4692@{#990}
OS	Windows 10 Version 20H2 (Build 19042.1415)

Followed steps from brave/brave-core#11299 and confirmed that the brave://settings/appearance window is correct and works, even when New Tab Page Branded Wallpapers was set to Disabled in brave://flags.

example	example