This gives a distraction free window for reading page content.
Currently Brave does not use CTRL+F11 shortcut so it would be also nice to allow hiding these browser widgets.
I saw that somebody already proposed such idea but somehow it did not get implemented yet.
I hope it will be done in some near feature release of Brave browser.
This would be really helpful. I recently upgraded to a really big 50" 4k screen for a monitor and sometimes I will vertically tile 2-3 windows. I would like to tile even 4 windows but with the tab bar and address bar it just looks really messy.
Would love keybindings to turn on and off all of the browser UI.
Essential for power users. This makes me inclined to go towards another browser and compensate what it lacks in terms of security, ad blocking and etc with third party apps.
This would be extremely useful, especially with tiling window managers, where it’s a common use-case to have two windows side-by-side on a small laptop screen. Please give us some more screen estate!
yes I have been searching for a feature like this for ages!
Even if you have it so that when you move your mouse to the top and the bar pops up it would be super neat.
+1 for this mode. I develop in WordPress and other online IDE’s and would like to use keystrokes to put Brave into a “Distraction Free” mode. (A) I want to reclaim a bit of screen real estate, and (B) I don’t want unnecessary items on the screen when I’m concentrating.
Just switched to Brave from Firefox / Chrome for both personal / professional. I really like it so far.
There is somehow a workaround for this. I use Linux, so it might be easier for me, but I checked under Windows it is also possible:
Create shortcut of often used sites.
This can be done on the opened site from “Menu” → “More tools” → “Create shortcut”, then select “Open as window”.
Use external script:
For windows: @echo off
set /p app=“URL "
“C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe” --app=”%app%"
With this script you open it and paste the copied URL. Also you can create more scripts for most visited sites.
For Linux:
#!/bin/sh
sel=$(xsel)
brave-browser --class=BraveApp --app=“$sel”
In this case you copy the URL and run the script (the URL will be taken from clipboard by the script).
So there is a way, but not straightforward (or maybe there is some extension which can run an external command with the URL as a parameter. I did not check).
its good suggestion, lets upvote it. Also recommend to publish post about minimalistic eco design in browser, softs etc. in Reddit, Medium to increase chance of realization.
There is “External Application Launcher” chrome extension which can be configured to run current page URL or link with the script I posted above. With that we can bypass current Brave limitation.
Everything work except it creates a regular tab when I click on it instead of a new window w/o the URL bar in it. Interesting that Chrome does not behave this way.
