A lot of time has passed but imma +1 for this feature. Really useful for immersive work/study session and a must have on tiling window managers with small laptop screens.
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Sorry for the bump but I really agree. As mentioned, this would be super useful in tiling WMs. I use fake fullscreen mode to hide the address bar, but it also hides the tab bar, which has useful information I still may want to see. +1
Thanks for your dedication to getting a workaround for this feature which really should be in Brave by now. I just had a question about your setup with the external application button extension.
I just followed the screengrab as you shared and I don’t understand the role of the display name and executable name. Are these referring to something which you’ve setup seperately?
I personally am using this for specific websites only so I am using the filter by pattern which does seem to be doing something as when I go to access that link the page doesn’t open but I’m suspecting it should be opening up somewhere.
Any advice? I’m sure it will come in useful to other folk.
Oh and one more question: how do I customize it so it shows neither the url bar or the tab bar?
Display name is the name which will appear in the right click menu. So it is sort of a label.
In my case these are:
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- Run as application
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- Add to YT playlist
The “application name” is the name of the application which will be run when you select the option specified by “display name”. In my case I have the following “application names”:
- brave_as_app.sh
- add_yt_url_to_playlist.sh
These are the Bash scripts as I am running Brave on Linux. As argument I have [HREF] for each of the scripts. These scripts you put in the folder which is visible to the user (usually the folder is defined in the PATH system variable). The content of the brave_as_app.sh is:
#!/bin/sh
$XDG_LOCAL/scr/brave.sh --class=BraveApp --app="$1"
I hope this clarified your questions. If not feel free to as further. 
Kind regards,
Zaxon