Brave Leo’s new feature could be a big deal for tab hoarders

Brave Nightly just got a genuinely useful Leo feature. You can now ask Leo to clean up your tabs, and it’ll actually go ahead rearranging tabs within a window, moving them to different or new windows, creating and editing tab groups, and closing tabs you don’t need.

The team put the spotlight on the feature in a recent post on X from the Brave Nightly team.

I immediately went and installed the latest Nightly build and gave it a shot myself, and it worked exactly as advertised. I typed “group my Reddit tabs” into Leo, and it identified all four of my Reddit tabs, grouped them together in a new orange tab group it named “Reddit Tabs,” and left my YouTube tab sitting outside the group on its own. You can see it in the screenshots below.

Before Leo actually does anything with your tabs, it throws up a security warning asking for permission. It tells you clearly that allowing this will send the URL and title of all your open tabs to Brave AI, and that it’ll have permission to move things around. The permission is scoped to that specific conversation only, which is a reasonable guardrail.

The attachment button in Leo’s chat input also shows an “Open tabs…” option now, so you can feed Leo your tab context directly without typing everything out.

Right now this is Nightly only, so it hasn’t landed in the stable or beta channels yet. That said, if you already run Nightly for testing, it’s worth playing around with. The tab management actually works well enough that I wouldn’t be surprised to see it ship to more users soon.

Brave has been working on a few other features lately. We covered how Brave brought Containers to the desktop beta channel just a couple of days ago, and before that, Brave Origin hit the stable channel for desktop and Android, giving users a stripped-down, Leo-free version of the browser. The Leo tab management feature sits on the opposite end of that spectrum, since it’s leaning into the AI assistant rather than cutting it out.

For now you’ll need to be on the Nightly build to try it. You can grab it from the official Brave Nightly download page.

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