Pressing alt tab shows a window of brave opened when it isnt it even there

for some reason and its very annoying to deal with each day i have to restart my laptop couple times just for it to come back an hour later when i watch on youtube or search for something then remove the tab it shows the tab still opened but with no thumbnail or anything cant be closed through task manger or by pressing the X mark

Version 1.73.97 Chromium: 131.0.6778.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)

@Yoichiroki you only show us a thing of one Brave window open, with lots of tabs.

Yes, you have some other window open on your OS, but notice how it doesn’t show the Brave lion icon on it like it does on the other window? That’s an indicator that it’s not Brave.

For example, Alt+Tab here. You’ll notice 4 windows are open. Two of them are Brave, one is Paint, and the other is SupportAssist.

Alt + Tab is how you toggle between anything you have open on your computer. So yes, you have something running. But it’s just the question of what?

yea thats the thing that i would like to know cause sometimes they are named Netflix - Brave or youtube video and Brave beside it and it only appears to be happening with brave.

When this happens, you can try opening the system task manager and check to see if any Brave processes are running at that time. Note that the “updater” might be running as it will typically run in the background even if the browser is closed, but this would not account for the tab that is showing when you use Alt + Tab

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