Almost everytime I go on a site, the thing slides accross and tells me to install it, which is very annoying, it only serves as a distraction and it’s annoying. I’m attaching a screenshot of it. It’s hard to get a screenshot, becuase it usually goes away before I can press the print-screen button and I end up pressing the wrong button quickly.
Hey there @Atira 
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There is no setting exposed in the normal settings of Brave Browser. Nonetheless, there are “hidden” flags settings which you can use. But be careful and keep in mind this or other settings which you may set can change or will change.
Steps:
- Open
Brave Browser - Press
F6on your keyboard - Copy and past this:
brave://flags/#pwa-update-dialog-for-icon - Set to
disable, which should be anyway the default setting - Done
Hope this helps, else just ask. 
I hoped, but it didn’t work. I couldn’t find any settings for it in there.
@Atira specifically which part are you referencing?
If you’re indeed speaking of the Install part that exists in your URL bar up top, that should exist any time a website a PWA available. There should be no sliding across motion as you’re saying.
And if it’s this, you may see a reduction if you disable Web App Universal Install at brave://flags. But not sure
If you mean anything like where you have the Download Brave Browser banner, that’s more like an ad. You can just right click on the screen, choose Block Element, click on it, and then create a rule for it. The syntax it creates is community.brave.com##.headerLink.headerLink--undefined.download-brave-browser-custom-header-links > [href*="https://brave.com/download/"] if you just want to copy/paste that into brave://settings/shields/filters and it won’t show anymore.
@Mattches tried looking through flags and not sure of any others beyond what mentioned. You aware of any other settings I’m not thinking of? Or even know what they mean about any prompt sliding across to install?
The Web App Universal Install is set to Disabled by default already so I don’t think that will have any effect. Worth noting that OP (@Atira) opened a similar thread requesting this for the Autoplay blocked notification that appears in the address bar.
I opened an issue for it already and added a comment that it may be worth considering allowing users to block the install PWA prompts as well or the ability to hide any notification of this nature:
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I mean that ‘Install’ sliding across and disappearing in the address bar.
I can’t believe there isn’t a way to disable it.
One of the things I loved about Firefox was that it had a debug menu, I think that what it’s called and you can edit a lot of stuff, before everything started becoming less customisable. If I ‘owned’ a web browser, I would make it the best I can, starting with getting rid of annoyances, and I’d make it more secure, starting with not making the browser start with where you left off by default. This one should be obvious.
Brave seems to be the only browser that can block Google’s ‘postal’ pop-up (the that asks you to sign in on every pagel the one that bullying you to sign in or make an account to make) for those wondering why I don’t just switch to another browser.
I applogise for the rant; I’m extremely frustrated by it. I have to install web page as an app just to get it to stop annoying me and bringing down my mental health (from frequent, unneeded annoyances).
It appears that the devs are only doing minimum work and only fixes something if it’s major, like the content filter box, still stuck at the bottom, a lot of things, you can’t block, regardless of how many time you try. I ended up inadvertainly blocked a bunch of other things on Newegg, while trying to block the annoying/distracting pulsing icons on some of the pages.