Brave openning multiple identical tab in alt+tab Windows 11

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Hello !

Description of the issue:

Each time I keep my computer open for a long time, when I alt+tab (from a game most of the time to Brave on my first screen), several windows/app of Brave open from the same Brave window. It is always from the Brave open on my second screen. And it can create an infinite number of tab accessible from alt+tab, but all displaying the same window (it’s often a twitch stream and they all display the stream going on). Closing Brave doesn’t reset the tabs but they stay as “empty”. And other tabs will be created from new window if I open Brave back. I can’t close the tab with the X button, nor with the task manager. And when I close Brave, everything disappear in the task mananger. To me it looks like a weird interaction between Brave and Windows 11.


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How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Have two screens with Brave open on both of them. On the first one there is a lot of website/tab open, on the second screen only one website open (streaming -twitch- most of the time)
  2. Alt+tab from time to time (hard to know if it’s exactly the alt+tab that generate that because I can’t reproduce it). But sometime I alt+tab from a game to the first screen Brave and I see lot of tabs open

Expected result: Have only two tab accessible from alt+tab The Brave tab on the main screen and Brave on the second screen

Brave Version: Version 1.77.100 Chromium: 135.0.7049.100 (Build officiel) (64 bits)

Additional Information: Windows 11, Double screen. Geforce RTC 4060 TI, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8 core

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Can anyone help me on that it happen every day to me ?

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I don’t know a complete fix but just don’t go into Fullscreen. it happens to me at least when I alt+tab on a full screened browser tab.

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Try opening Task Manager and restarting the Explorer process. It may be related to the below issues:

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Ok it did the trick. Rebooting the explorer clear the tabs.

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