On Wed, 2026 Apr 8 16:25-04:00, Andres Salomon wrote: > > I've narrowed it down to the switch from disable/glic.patch -> > ungoogled/disable-ai.patch. Basically I took all the new stuff > (non-upstream) from .177, including deleting the .pb files, and was able > to reproduce the problematic new tab page on .164. Then if I switch back > from disable-at.patch to glic.patch, it fixes the issue.
It did seem like the new-tab page was being revised for some new AI feature, but not with an explicit intent to yield the behavior we're seeing. > I'm looking through the differences between the two now to see if I > can figure out what is causing it. I was summarizing the diff on the disable-ai PR; aside from your handful of "assert(enable_glic)" removals, there were only a few code lines changed. If one of those turns out to make the difference, then we'll have a quite strange example of a code tweak having a significant yet non-obvious side effect on the UI.
