The content on brave://settings/braveHelpTips disappears upon reload and direct access via the address bar

[Tonev]

Description

Just noticed that a reload while being on brave://settings/braveHelpTips, or directly accessing the page via the address bar, hides page's content. Users would have to click on Help tips from the menu in order to bring back the content on brave://settings/braveHelpTips.

This issue looks specific to brave://settings/braveHelpTips as I couldn't reproduce the issue with any other page.

Steps to Reproduce

• Case 1:

1. Open brave://settings/braveHelpTips via the address bar.
2. Observe the content of the page.

• Case 2:

1. Open brave://settings/.
2. Click on Additional settings from the settings menu.
3. Click on Help tips.
4. Reload the page.

Actual result:

The content disappears.

Expected result:

The content shouldn't disappear.

Reproduces how often:

100%

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.38.111 Chromium: 101.0.4951.54 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	67da1aeb32cedd27634ca6634fb79cbd85d3f0ab-refs/branch-heads/4951@{#1126}
OS	Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1682)

Brave	1.39.92 Chromium: 101.0.4951.54 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision	67da1aeb32cedd27634ca6634fb79cbd85d3f0ab-refs/branch-heads/4951@{#1126}
OS	Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1682)

Brave	1.40.38 Chromium: 101.0.4951.54 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision	67da1aeb32cedd27634ca6634fb79cbd85d3f0ab-refs/branch-heads/4951@{#1126}
OS	Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1682)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Miscellaneous Information:

CC: @rebron

[stephendonner]

@spylogsster @rebron we need to uplift this to 1.42.x.

[kjozwiak]

@spylogsster @rebron we need to uplift this to 1.42.x.

I don't think this one really needs to be uplifted as it's been broken since 1.38.x and haven't really received any reports from Community or Twitter. I don't think most users will directly go into brave://settings/braveHelpTips (most don't even know the URL) nor would refresh a settings page once they've visited it.

However, because this one is pretty easy to QA, we'll get it uplifted into 1.42.x even thought it's a short cycle and we're being more careful re: what we uplift as we also have a major chromium bump even though the cycle is 21 days rather than 28 days.

[kjozwiak]

The above will require 1.42.70 or higher for 1.42.x verification 👍

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Verification PASSED on

Brave | 1.42.73 Chromium: 103.0.5060.134 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 8ec6fce403b3feb0869b0732eda8bd95011d333c-refs/branch-heads/5060@{#1262}
OS | Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826)

Verified the STR from the description and ensured brave://settings/braveHelpTips page content is not disappeared

[kjozwiak]

Moving this back into 1.43.x as it was reverted from 1.42.x as per brave/brave-core#14341.