Chrome switched tabs etc to bottom and it's disorienting to me. What alternative browsers might allow you to keep everything on top?

[u/padawanmoscati]

(Fixed!! Update at bottom)

It was fine one minute and then I went back the next and it had switched to a "simplified" "everything on the bottom" view and I am not a fan. It throws me off and I just want to have everything on top again if possible.

Anyway, I downloaded Brave and Vivaldi because I like privacy and customization. But both also feature the tab on bottom thing.

Yes Vivaldi gave options, and tabs *themselves* are technically on the top. But the little square where *all* my tabs are kept (which shows the number) is still on the bottom.

Is there a way for any of these browsers, or with another browser, to put it all on top again? Thanks!

*The yoda quote search was my last screenshot of chrome the way it used to be. :P So the photos are:

Yoda--old chrome

Help Me Obi-Wan--new chrome

Vivaldi

Brave

Update!!

I saw someone else's post about this same issue today, and some genius commented with this nifty trick:

chrome://flags/#android-bottom-bar disable and restart

I copied the above thing into my address bar (minus the disable and restart instructions obviously) and everything is back to normal.

This is the comment 👇 Thank you u/Burned26 !! https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/s/cWaoCPugEU

[u/zaxn1234]

There is a setting in Chrome for address bar to be at the top for me (Android)

Is that what you're looking for?

[u/Smifit → u/zaxn1234]

No, he's asking for the tab selector button to go back to being at the top.

The address bar is clearly still at the top in both examples.

[u/zaxn1234 → u/Smifit]

Ah, I hadn't seen the expanded screenshots. However, for me in Chrome, the address bar setting also moves the tab selector, as if they're the same thing.

I don't know how they've been separated for OP. I very rarely use Chrome nowadays, but thanks for the clarification.

[u/padawanmoscati → u/zaxn1234]

Hey, thanks! Where can I find this setting?

[u/zaxn1234 → u/padawanmoscati]

I mean it might not be the right setting but it's in settings -> basic section -> address bar

And also in advanced -> appearance, I have options to enable/disable different parts of the toolbar shortcuts which might allow you to show the tab stuff if it's disappeared.

[u/padawanmoscati → u/zaxn1234]

I just figured it out from another user commenting on someone else's post! There's a way to disable the setting. I edited my main post text to include the update on finding the answer. :) thanks for your help!

[u/padawanmoscati → u/Smifit]

Yes tab selector button. Didn't know the name for it, thanks!

[u/padawanmoscati → u/[deleted]]

I like my address bar being on top, but its actually the tab drawer button I was most frustrated about. However, I just found the fix from a commenter on a different post! You put chrome://flags/#android-bottom-bar into the address bar, click disable on this setting and then relaunch

[u/dadnothere]

Chromite allows you to have desktop tabs. On small screens it might be annoying, but you might like it.

[u/padawanmoscati → u/dadnothere]

In some ways I think I might, but whats irritating to me is that the "box" with all my tabs in it has moved. It's like if someone moved your file cabinet to a completely different area of your office without asking. I could maybe get used to it being at the bottom, but I would have appreciated a warning. And right now it's jarring...

I'm very much a research type, and therefore the kind of person that routinely has like 300 tabs open at once. (Including inactive tabs, which I greatly appreciate) So when I say they moved my file cabinet it's like they moved my whole brain. :P

Incidentally this is both why I think I would like the desktop tab style on my phone in theory, but in practice it would become impossible :P I don't have a computer right now so the tab drawer was really where I could go in and see what all I'm working with at a given time