"Grabbable" area of toolbar near 'Back' button keeps un-maximizing Brave when accidentally clicked (Linux/X11)

[mercster]

Description: Errant clicks to visually blank area of toolbar (above bookmark bar, below ‘Back’ button) cause window to unmaximize.

Reproduction:

Brave on Linux, X11 window system (X.org)

1. Open Brave browser, maximize the window. I display the bookmark bar at all times, which is how I’m describing where this spot is on the browser.
2. Click around on the left top area of the toolbar, below and slightly to the left of the back button, and above and slightly to the left of the first entry in your bookmark bar.
3. Notice, if you click the correct area, the cursor will change to the “hand” cursor, indicating you are trying to move the window. You can indeed move the Brave browser window around by holding down mouse button and dragging. If you just “click” it however, the Brave window takes this as you quickly “moving” the window, unmaximizing it.

Missing the “back” button by a few pixels and hitting this sweet spot, causes the browser to unmaximize, turning into a small window. It’s annoying and happens at least 5 times a day to me.

Fix: I don’t know if there’s an option for this in Brave’s (chromium’s) extensive “flags.” I tested the latest Chrome, it has no such “grabbable” area. I don’t want this feature, I will never attempt to move the Brave browser by clicking and dragging on any area of the toolbar. I assume this is configurable, since Chrome does not do this. Googling finds nothing, besides the below previous issue on Brave forums.

Brave version: Version 1.76.73 Chromium: 134.0.6998.45 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:

This question on the forum:

Brave automatically minimize/maximize when I click on the tab bar

Description of the issue: As per the title, when I click on the empty space of the tab bar, the brave windows automatically minimize/maximize itself, which is really annoying, how do I turn it off? Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3. Just click on any empty space on the tab bar Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!): I attached a video below but the forum say new user can’t attach file so here is the ggdrive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WwT_E9b8T9bP2j…

I’m pretty sure was trying to describe this. They weren’t as thorough and noone knew what he was talking about. But I do. EDIT: Just noticed he posted a video of it to Google drive. Yes, that is it. He was more thorough than me, turns out.

[Mattches]

@mercster will look into this – I know that double clicking on this area will likely cause the browser to “un-maximize” the same way it does on macOS. But it shouldn’t be happening with a single click or a click/hold.

Let me see if anyone on the Linux team can reproduce this issue.

[mercster]

Yep, thanks. Indeed it is just one click, it thinks you want to move the window but your mouse doesn’t move, so it stays in “move” mode for a split second, unmaximizing the window (which is par for the course in most windowing environments.)