Address Bar and Toolbar Bottom on Android

Brave Feature Requests Android Requests
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I’ve seen a couple of other forum posts request this feature but it has been closed before the issue is properly understood or solved.
The option to move the toolbar to the bottom in the appearance settings does not move the address bar as well. This still remains at the top as shown here:

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Option for toolbar at the bottom, as shown address bar is still at the top in this configuration

The second suggestion I saw was to disable the toolbar at the bottom option and to enable the chrome flag to have address bar at the bottom. Then go back into the brave options and enable the new option to set the address bar to the bottom. This option almost works as you can now see the address bar and toolbar have been moved to the bottom.

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Address bar and new tab and settings toolbar both at the bottom

The issue with that configuration is that the address bar returns to the top when you try to open a new tab, which makes it pretty much useless as the most times I will use the address bar is after opening a new tab:

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clicked the button to open new tab when it was at the bottom and it jumps to the top again for you to fill out.

The last option I tried is broken which is to enable both the flag for bottom address bar and the appearance setting to move the toolbar to the bottom. This option just covers the toolbar at the bottom with a fullwidth address bar as they are both trying to render on top of each other. This option would be perfect if they could just render in two rows at the same time:

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address bar and tool bar both set to bottom trying to render on top of each other

Hopefully there is some way to add this feature. Really it’s just the new tab page that needs looked at if it can keep the address bar on the bottom when the flag for address bar on the bottom is switch on.

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Thank you for your post. I was not happy with the toolbar vanishing on the bottom in a recent update. I hate having to reach to the top of my screen all the time and the new update that removed the bottom bar was horrible.

I can’t help you at all, but I appreciate you showing the flags you used to fix the biggest issue. I agree though that it would be nice to be able to place the address and full toolbar at the bottom. I know many other mobile browsers have this option.