I am using Brave on MacOS Tahoe and perhaps I am simply missing a setting, but it would be nice if “full screen mode” actually used the entire browser window, and hid the address bar and tab bar when the user scrolls or otherwise interacts within the web page (clicks a link, selects a text field, etc). When I click the green “maximize” button, only the Mac toolbar (Brave File Edit View History Bookmarks Profiles Tab Window Help) rolls away and disappears, but the address bar remains visible. I would prefer the address bar and tab bar to disappear as well. The address bar and tab bar should reappear when the cursor moves to the top of the page (or extreme left/right if vertical tabs are enabled), and disappear when the cursor moves toward the center of the screen. Basically the web page should be rendered similar to full screen YouTube, but have the address bar and tab bars available when the user needs them, but gone when not needed.
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