Running latest version of Brave (Version 1.38.111 Chromium: 101.0.4951.54 (Official Build) (64-bit))on fully updated Windows 11 Desktop. The Brave icon used to appear in the Windows 11 taskbar corner and it stopped doing this recently. I noticed that Chrome browser (latest version) does show this …

@rschilt , I’ve reached out to the team about this — my thinking personally on Also does not make sense that one add-on would trigger the placement of the icon in the system tray but not another. would be that not all extensions run in the background. Hope to have more information for you soon.

Yo Robert! The windows taskbar must be in the bottom center of ur screen … Press windows key and seaarch for brave…righr click and click on (pin to taskbar)… This shld solve ur issue… If the problem is not solved…let me know…or raise a request… Thank you, Sky Gazer

Hi @Sky_Gazer Thanks for responding - but not quite. I can easily pin Brave icon to Taskbar (green tick) But the Brave icon has disappeared from the Taskbar corner (red cross) [2022-05-10_18-38-49] Any other suggestions? Robert

Hi @rschilt To seen Brave in notification area, open brave://settings/system and enable Continue running background apps when Brave is closed.

Thanks @CerealLover , Thats the issue… this is already set in Brave settings: [2022-05-10_22-02-33] I wonder if this is a Brave bug? Robert

Hi @rschilt I forgot to tell you something very important… the same problem is happening to me too! BUT, I noticed that when I activate an extension called REVERSO used for translation… guess what happened? The Brave icon appears in the system tray, in bottom right! We need someone to check this f…

Thanks @CerealLover , Your a champion! I’m always relieved when I have an issue and someone else reports the same. I rather like the Brave icon in the notification area (or Taskbar Corner as Microsoft now calls it) - so have temporarily enabled Reverso for this purpose. [2022-05-10_22-53-34] Ch…

[image] CerealLover: Is it a bug or not? No clue. I am just a community member trying to help where I can (and often where I can’t, but I try :wink:). But that was nice of you to think I might could help… :smiley: @mattches is definitely the person who can say if this is a bug or if it is w…

Hello We want to check the following, preferably in Windows 11: does the Brave icon appears in bottom right of taskbar when when BRAVE is set to run in the background when we open brave://settings/system and enable Continue running background apps when Brave is closed ?

For me only if the Reverso plugin is enabled otherwise not (see earlier comments in this topic). This is using Win11.

I think this is the intended behavior — icons appearing in this area (as I understand it) are active in some way, and not all extensions run/need to run in the background. Even if you have Brave set to Continue running background apps when Brave is closed, there may not actually be anything running …

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Thanks @CerealLover,

Thats the issue… this is already set in Brave settings:

I wonder if this is a Brave bug?

Robert

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