Brave design issues

I noticed two design issues with Brave, and I wonder if these are bugs in Brave, or design/theme issues caused by Zorin 18?

  1. When you shift-click to selected multiple tabs, there is no visible selection state. They do get selected - if you shift-click to select a few tabs and then press CTRL+W, it does close them all. There is just not visible selection.
  2. Private mode looks really broken. It's a weird mix of the dark purple theme that Brave normally uses, but with backgrounds in bright gray - it looks awful. For some reason, selected tabs are highlighted in private mode, but only barely, it's almost too subtle to make out.

Are these general issues with Brave on Linux or does the Zorin shell theme mess things up somehow?

For #1 I don't know, but for #2 I can say that I already had it when I used Brave in Windows. So, this seems to be a Brave Thing.

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I don't have either of those issues on Windows.

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Hmm ... I'm no longer on Windows. So, I can't take a Look at this. But in the Past, I had this purple Desgin there. I guess it was a Sign that it runs in Private Mode.

I played a bit with Vivaldi a couple Days ago and there I was able to set a different Design for the Private Mode. So, when it should annoy You too much, maybe take a Look at Vivaldi?

On Debian 13, the tabs do get a little highlight. In normal mode it could be a little more obvious, but it's there:

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As for the private mode background, I'm not seeing any changes except for the top menu bar turning purple.

I would have to test it on another computer with Zorin OS (I might in the next couple of days) to see if I can reproduce this there as well.

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Yes, the purple design in private mode is not a bug - but on Zorin, I'm seeing a weird mix of purple and bright gray. And the tab highlight color is identical to other tabs. So both regular and private mode themes are messed up somehow.

Could You maybe post some Screenshots of it? It would be good to see it.

I've just tested this on Z18 and I can also see that behavior: selecting multiple tabs doesn't actually highlight them all (only the currently visible one). And I think we can confirm this is an issue with the Zorin OS theme by going into the browser settings, appearance and selecting the "Classic" theme. That makes the highlighting issue go away; can you try this as well?

But I have no issues in private windows, all tabs are highlighted as expected, and I'm not seeing any strange mix of colors. Is this something that happens on certain websites, maybe?

I use the Chrome Design Slate and have no problems with the display.

In private mode, it looks like this

and in Tor mode it looks like this

actually everything is correct

It's likely an issue with the Brave theme that Zorin ships then?

Unfortunately, I can't answer that.