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Description of the issue:
Opening and switching between tabs opens a tab preview that sits on the top left hand corner of the screen, right below the first tab. This obstructs the view of the page. Sometimes clicking inside the page can produce this issue. The only way around it is opening a new tab and then closing that tab again. It works most of the time but sometimes I have to open and close a new tab multiple times to get rid of that annoying preview window. The preview window previews the content of the first tab.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Opening a new tab usually does it. Closing a tab also triggers it.
Opening and closing a fresh tab fixes it most of the time but it will happen again when you open a new tab
Expected result:
The preview to go away and not bother me.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.64.116, Chromium 123.0.6312105
Mobile Device details
Android 13, it is an Android TV Box
Additional Information:
I keep updating hoping that a new version fixes this problem but it persists so I thought I would report it because this issue is really annoying and I would love it resolved. I love Brave and just wish I didn’t have this issue.
Would it be possible to get a screenshot or (even better) a short screen recording of the behavior? I’m not entirely clear on what it is you’re describing.
@Wendell the challenge here is based on you using Google TV or whatever, the Android TV. I’m assuming you sideloaded?
On this, it’s not looking for your finger or anything but would be more like a mouse. The “keyboard” is maintaining the hover over the tab which then shows. I believe you should be able to hit something like a Back button on your controller or just move it over so you’re not highlighting the tab and it would go away. But while it’s hovering/pressing on the tab as you’re showing in the screenshot, it would show as it is.
That said, I know Mattches is looking at it with you and they might find something. I just wanted to try to make sure I’m seeing things properly and wanted to suggest issue is that Brave isn’t built to work on Android TV but is just on mobile devices and desktop.
Please make it work for Android TV. Brave is an awesome browser for Android TV. This is the only problem I found with it. How can I upload my video of the problem? I would love this to be resolved.
Okay, so that’s working differently than I thought. I assumed it was still up on the tab. Not sure why it’s happening when you click in the screen. I’ll try to do some extra research on it this week to see if I come up with anything.
I will say I saw something different but possibly related from years ago that saw issues based on accessibility apps or settings, such as Tasker, Automate, Click Assistant, LongShot, etc. Not sure if you have any of those installed.
Thank you for looking into this for me. I don’t use any automated apps. It is Android 13 running the Play Store and just a few media apps. If you could find a solution to this problem then you would improve the quality of my life quite significantly. I appreciate you helping me with this. Tell me if you need anything. I do want to add that this has only been a bug for about 4 months. This didn’t used to happen.
@Wendell,
The behavior you’re seeing, in general, is a tab hover card (with image preview). I’m actually not sure if there is a setting to disable this on Android devices in the way that there is on desktop — can you check Settings --> Appearance in Brave and see if this setting or a similar one is present?
@Wendell,
Thank you for checking.
I have one last thing to try here — can you please launch Brave and type brave://flags into the address bar? You should land on a page that looks similar to this one:
On the resulting page, use the search box and search for “hover” and see what flags appear. We’re looking for one labeled Tab Hover Card Image Setting (or similar) or maybe Tab Hover Card Images.
If you find the flag Tab Hover Card Image Setting
Set this value to Enabled, relaunch the browser and you should now see an option in Settings --> Appearance that allows you to disable the feature.
If you find the flag Tab Hover Card images
I believe you’ll want to set this flag value to Disabled and relaunch — the feature will be disabled moving forward.
If you do not find either of those settings, please let me know what flags do appear and we’ll go from there.
@Wendell,
Dang — I do apologize, I thought for sure one of those flags would be present. Since they’re not, I’ve gone ahead and created an issue for the Android team to review to implement a setting that allows you to disable the feature if desired:
I don’t want this thread to close because this is a major issue for me. I can only work with one tab at a time and it is really difficult to do more than one thing. Can the priority of this please be increased? It greatly effects my production in life. I just want to be able to disable this terrible hover card. It constantly messes up what I am trying to do.
