Option to disable download notification bar

Brave Feature Requests
1

Small but fantastically annoying thing. Every time I download something from a web page, for example an image, pdf or other file, there’s a whacking great bar pops up across the bottom of the screen with the name/location of the download, and a big “close” x on the right.

Really?? Firstly there’s NO need for it to be so huge, secondly it could be relegated to a status bar, thirdly it really ought, by now, to be a simple switch in setting to just turn this darned thing off completely.

I’m enjoying Brave but really… the lag on implementing just simple, basic features is getting to be a REAL drag.

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What on earth? This has been Goin on since March and has not been fixed. I’ll take Chrome over this incompetence. Goodbye.

3

It’s really HUGE and annoying, and It’s worse than ads bar.

4

Can use an extensions for this end. It makes the bar disappear. For example this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/download-manager/epgkpmpjileiepinlphboolabkkdelle/related

5

We should not need to use an extension for something that is WAY too big and basically unnecessary to see for advanced computer users.

6

@BrowserMad You have my support. That bar is huge and extremely annoying. I hate that bar.

7

Hate it, too … but I found a great extension that auto-hides the download bar after a few seconds – works like a charm!

It’s this one: AutoHideDownloadsBar

Perhaps you’ll find it useful.

9

I am surprised that there has been little response to this
In my opinion the download notification bar is intrusive for a few downloads and absolutely annoying when downloading multiple files. Surely just a switch to turn the notification off is not too much to ask?

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@joschaf I don’t like to install extensions on my browsers. For me a browser should be just a browser without the need to install anything. However, I really appreciate your suggestion.