Description of the issue: Under certain circumstances on the Gnome desktop the “ctrl” key will start the “close tab” action and the “alt” tab will start the “close window” action. How can this issue be reproduced? EDIT: There’s an additional unknown step that must trigger this behavior, while open…

Brave on Linux sometimes closes windows with "alt" and tabs with "ctrl"

vraiment June 3, 2025, 6:01am 2

This seems to be related to something on Gnome, see this issue there

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