Issues with sidebar mouseover behavior causing activation failures and unwanted page resizing

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Description of the issue:

There are two issues I’m experiencing with the Brave browser’s sidebar when using the “mouseover” mode of sidebar:

  1. Sometimes, when I move the mouse to the edge of the screen, the sidebar doesn’t appear. This seems inconsistent — it occasionally works, but often it doesn’t respond to the mouseover.
  2. When the sidebar does appear, it currently pushes/shrinks the page content to make space for itself. This causes noticeable layout shifts and even some lag, especially on pages with complex layouts. A better user experience would be for the sidebar to appear as an overlay on top of the page rather than resizing the content.

Exact URL of the website in question:

This issue is not specific to a single website — it happens across some websites.

Did the issue present with default Shields settings? (yes/no):

Yes

Does the site function as expected when Shields are turned off?

Yes — Shields do not seem related to this issue.

Is there a specific Shields configuration that causes the site to break? If so, tell us that configuration. (yes/no):

No

Does the site work as expected when using Chrome?

This feature does not exist in Chrome, so the issue is specific to Brave’s implementation of the sidebar.

Brave version (check About Brave):

v1.77.97

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Im also facing the same issue

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Yeah, I am also facing the same issue, and even though I am facing this in the “homepage” or “new tab” window of Brave, I have to switch from “Autohide” to “on” and then again to “Autohide” for it to work.

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I press the home button twice to make that happen. this is really silly. it shouldn’t be a big problem for developers to fix it and i am wondering why this happened at the beginning!

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The sidebar does not work with Arabic

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There is no Arabic websites on my sidebar too!