mj1993
April 16, 2026, 7:06pm
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Description of the issue:
I’m experiencing weird invisible overlays in the Browser, e.g. on YouTube or on Amazon and even in the dev console of the browser where I can’t click on stuff.
Demo here in the dev console:
And here on the YouTube Icon:
And here in the amazon search bar:
Expected result: I should be able to click anywhere on the site
Brave Version: Brave 1.89.137 (Official Build) (arm64)
Device: Macbook M3 Pro 14’', macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 (a)
Additional Information: These issues happened regardless of the resolution, so on the notebook screen as well as the external monitor, but it seems to be only happening in full screen of Brave.
When I try to inspect the html elements, no overlay is visible. I have already deactivated all add-ons.
This is a known issue that is being worked on presently:
opened 09:24PM - 14 Apr 26 UTC
OS/macOS
QA/Yes
release-notes/include
OS/Desktop
full screen
### Description
After updating Brave, there is a thin horizontal “dead zone” al… ong the entire width of the viewport in macOS native fullscreen. Clicks in this strip are not delivered to the page (links, GitHub header controls, search bar, etc. in that band do not respond). The issue does not occur in non-fullscreen (windowed) mode.
The affected region sits just below the browser chrome (tabs/address bar), running edge-to-edge across the window—similar to a single-pixel-tall (or a few pixels tall) band at the top of the web content area (see annotated screenshot: red line marks the strip).
### Steps to reproduce
1. Open Brave on macOS.
2. Enter fullscreen (green traffic-light button / View → Enter Full Screen).
3. Open any site with a dense top bar (e.g. GitHub).
4. Try to click elements whose top sits in the uppermost row of the page content (under the address bar).
5. Observe missed clicks along a continuous horizontal line across the full width of the page.
6. Expected behavior
7. The full viewport should be clickable; there should be no full-width dead strip under the toolbar.
### Actual result
A full-width horizontal band at the top of the page content does not receive clicks in fullscreen.
### Expected result
The full viewport should be clickable; there should be no full-width dead strip under the toolbar.
### Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
### Brave version (brave://version info)
Brave | 1.89.132 Chromium: 147.0.7727.56 (Official Build) (arm64)
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Revision | d491a927d068805831350ec9d7e5afda454e83ce
OS | macOS Version 26.3.1 (a) (Build 25D771280a)
JavaScript | V8 14.7.173.16
User agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line | /Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser --disable-domain-reliability --enable-dom-distiller --enable-distillability-service --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --variations-insecure-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --component-updater=url-source=https://go-updater.brave.com/extensions
Executable Path | /Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser
Profile Path | /Users/exploit/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Linker | lld
Command-line variations | eyJkaXNhYmxlLWZlYXR1cmVzIjoiQUlQcm9tcHRBUElcdTAwM0NCdWlsdElu... |
Active variations | main@bdabfcd2b5931e444b28ef43da9fc4161b9152fbAIChatCodeExecutionTool_Release:DefaultAdblockOnlyModeStudy:EnabledAllowCertainClientHintsStudy:EnabledBTMGoogleAuthWorkaround:EnabledBraveAIChatConversationAPIV2Study:DefaultBraveAdblockMobileNotificationsListDefault:EnabledBraveAdsNewTabPageAdsStudy:EnabledBraveAggressiveModeRetirementExperiment:DisabledBraveAutoTranslateStudy:AutoTranslateDisabledBraveCleanupSessionCookiesOnSessionRestore:DisabledBraveCopyCleanLinkFromJsStudy:EnabledBraveDebounceStudy:EnabledBraveFeedUpdateStudy:EnabledBraveForgetFirstPartyStorage:EnabledBraveGoogleSignInPermissionStudy:EnabledBraveHorizontalTabsUpdateEnabledStudy:EnabledBraveNTPBrandedWallpaperStudy:EnabledBraveNewTabPageRefreshStudy:EnabledBraveP3AConstellationEnabled:EnabledBraveP3AJSONOtherDeprecation:EnabledBraveP3ANebulaRelease:EnabledBraveP3ATypicalJSONDeprecationEnabled:EnabledBraveRewardsAllowSelfCustodyProvidersStudy:EnabledBraveRewardsNewRewardsUIStudy:EnabledBraveRewardsWebUiPanelStudy:EnabledBraveScreenFingerprintingBlockerStudy:EnabledBraveWalletAnkrBalancesEnabled:DefaultBraveWebViewRoundedCornersStudy:EnabledBraveWebcompatExceptionsServiceReleaseStudy:EnabledBuiltInAIAPIsDisabledStudy:DisabledClampPlatformVersionClientHint:DisabledCrossPlatformVPNStudy:EnabledDefaultBraveOmniboxMoreHistoryStudy:EnabledDisableReduceLanguage:EnabledEphemeralStorageStudy:EnabledExtensionsManifestV2StudyRelease:EnabledInProcessBraveAdsServiceStudy:EnabledMacCoreLocationBackendStudy:EnabledPartitionVisitedLinkDatabaseWithSelfLinks_Release:EnabledPartitionedCookies:EnabledSeedFileTrial:DefaultSpeedreader TTS:EnabledUndecryptablePasswords:EnabledUserActivityStudy:TriggersWhatsNewStudy:EnabledZCashStudy_EnabledWithShieldingOnNewVersions:EnabledWithShielding
### Channel information
- [x] release (stable)
- [ ] beta
- [ ] nightly
### Reproducibility
- [ ] with Brave Shields disabled
- [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
- [ ] in the latest version of Chrome
### Miscellaneous information
<img width="1440" height="859" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e9d3fcb2-3079-4a45-9315-2311d9ed9352" />