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Does the issue also occur in a Private window?

Does it happen if you create a new profile and try it in that profile? (Make sure your original profile does not have any open windows; only the new profile should be open.)

Is Hardware Acceleration enabled in Settings? (“Use hardware acceleration when available”) You could try toggling that setting and then re-launch Brave, does anything change?

Would you mind taking a short screen recording that shows the behavior?