In most browsers I have used, when I hover over a link in the current web site, the full URL is displayed in the status bar below the browser. I cannot find a way to get Brave to display this URL preview. Is this possible already or do I need to make a feature request?
Open a web site with links to other sites in it
Hover over one of the links
No URL is displayed. No status bar is visible at bottom of Brave browser.
A preview of the URL of the link being hovered over ought to be displayed
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.10.97 Chromium: 83.0.4103.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Hi @bakershack,
Can you also try creating a new test profile and see if hovering over something shows you a link in the bottom left?
Click on the menu icon in the top right corner > create a new profile.
I really haven’t changed much of anything since installing. I set up the BAT wallet and started accumulating. I don’t remember ever seeing a status bar, but only recently was I really curious about seeing where a link was taking me. This was when I noticed that there seemed to be no way to see that. So I started looking for a setting like “Show Status Bar” or something like that. I have only had Brave installed for about 3 months.
No theme, and using default look. Setting is Same as Windows. I played with that setting - no change. Is there supposed to be a status bar somewhere in the browser that would display the URL, or is it supposed to pop up like a Tool Tip?
@bakershack
Sorry for the late reply. Yes there is supposed to be a status bar. This is a very rare case. I’ll be taking a note and looking out for others with the same issue and hopefully we can find the problem. If you have any more info or find the status bar to appear, please let us know.
I actually do have the status bar on my home laptop. It pops up only when there is something to display. However, the status bar is still AWOL from my work laptop, a Dell with Win 10 on it as I stated previously.
I’m experiencing this issue also. I typically hover over all links to see where they lead and they no longer show up in Brave after the latest update or so. I’ve just recently noticed this so it’s fairly new bug behavior introduced. I’ve already restart Brave as a test. As a sanity test, opening the latest Chrome and Chromium builds show me URL locations when I hover over the URLs as expected (I was making sure some sort of functionality wasn’t removed from the chromium base…).