Fix annoying tab close message

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Description of the issue:

In Android, when I close a tab, the notification alert in the bottom stays for wayyyyyy too long, occupying anything that might be at the bottom of the site. And there’s no way go remove it unless I clock to undo the tab closure.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. open 2 or more tabs on the same group

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  2. close one of the tabs

  3. you will see the remaining tab and the tab closed alert, which stays there for way too long (probably more than 30 seconds), making the bottom part of the site on the remaining tab completely not accessible and unusable.

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Expected result:

the bottom part of the remaining tab should be free of any alerts and accessible at all times. probably make the alert timeout 1-2 seconds max.

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Brave Version( check About Brave):

All android versions.

Mobile Device details

Android 13, Samsung Galaxy A71

Additional Information:

I think the issue should be clear from the screenshots already.

This issue is especially annoying when I have a video in full screen and I can’t seek forward or backwards because the player’s progress bar is behind this message for many many seconds.

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Would love to see either the time it stays shortened, be able to swipe it away, or have the time its there be adjustible in settings.

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The Undo button appears to stay for roughly 10 seconds — if either of yours is truly staying for 30 seconds, please share a short recording of the button staying for that length of time, as that would truly be a bug.

Outside of that, I think 10s is a reasonable time for that notification to stay — especially considering previously, we’ve changed it from disappearing too quickly after a couple seconds or so as users were accidentally closing tabs and then losing the opportunity to undo what they’d done. That said, I do think the ability to swipe away the notification is also a reasonable request that I’ll bring up with the team.

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I think that I made a post regarding this same thing (it’s pending moderation review as it’s a first post).
What method are you using to open the new tab? Is it manually opening the tab, or is it tapping a link and the link opens a new tab?
My issue is that clicking any link that opens up a new tab, creates the same issue.

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I do not use tab groups. On regular tabs when closing a tab by sliding it out, the popup stays roughly 8-10 seconds. I used stopwatch to clock it :grinning:
I am using brave nightly on Android 14.