Description of the issue:
When I navigate away from Brave, then return to the window, the screen I return to is blank. When I use Alt+Tab, I also see blank screens when navigating away and returning, especially when switching between Windows desktops
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
[Note – hard for me to reproduce reliably – happens often, but not all the time]
For alt tab:
Open Brave with a few tabs
Open some other apps
Alt tab away from Brave to another app
Alt tab again holding alt – you’ll see the brave window is blacked out
For tab in brave browser:
Open Brave with a few tabs
Open some other apps
Navigate to another app full screen
Navigate back to Brave - the open tab will be blank/black (if on dark mode)
Click on black screen once and contents will reappear
Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):
Here’s a sloppy pic of the blank alt-tab screen:
Adding this thread because it’s the same issue. There were no official replies there and it got closed. I’m still experiencing what I described in that thread. I don’t remember if clicking on blank screen fixes it for me as OP says it does for them.
Windows 10
Version 0.66.101 Chromium: 75.0.3770.142 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Thanks for the addition, poisonapple. The topic you added isn’t quite the same, as my screen remains blank until I click on it. The OP in the linked thread seems to only have it happen for half a second. This actually happens to me, too, but wasn’t quite what I was reporting.
Did some poking around and tried disabling hardware acceleration but that didn’t solve the problem.
One minor additional thing I noticed: when I have the black screen on a Brave window, I don’t have to click on the screen to show contents again. I can click anywhere and the contents will retrun (e.g., on the hamburger menu in the upper right).
Actually, may have spoke too soon. The alt-tab issue is fixed, but I still occasionally (but not all the time) get a black screen when switching desktops in Windows.
Have brave open in one desktop
Navigate to another desktop using Ctrl+Win+arrow
Navigate back to the first desktop with brave open and on top using Ctrl+Win+arrow
Sometimes (not all the time) the Brave window is black and reappears only with clicking anywhere on Brave).