Media keys begin hijacked by Brave

[Levy]

Brave is taking priority over any other application when trying to use media buttons.

1. Press a media button (Pause/play) (?)
2. Watch as Brave pauses your Twitch stream when u want to pause a Spotify song.

Actual Result: Brave takes the priority instead of Spotify or any other application

Expected result: I can pause my Spotify without Brave taking over the media keys

Reproduces how often: 100% of the times

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): Windows 11
Versie 1.65.82 Chromium: 123.0.6312.46 (Officiële build) beta (64-bits)

Additional Information: I’ve tried the fixes by disabling the flags, but they’re gone. I’ve also enabled the Temporarily unexpire M121 flags. and M122 flags, but they didnt bring the option back.

[IDKwhatNAME]

Hi I found a fix that worked for me.

1. Exit any running-instance of brave.
2. Find the shortcut you normally use to launch brave.
3. Create a copy of it
4. Right click on the new shortcut, and select Properties
5. At the very end of the Target: text box, add a space and then the desired command line flags. It should end in something like …\brave.exe" --disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling
6. Double click the new shortcut to launch brave with the new command line flags.

You have to launch brave with the new shortcut, otherwise it most likely wont work.

Here is the thread where i found the fix.

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/264881586/hardware-media-key-handling-no-longer-available-in-chrome-flags-lists?hl=en

(It was for chrome but it also works for brave if u change everything that says chrome to brave. It maybe works for other browsers as well. This worked for Chrome and Brave for me.)

Hope this helps.

[nik789]

It works for me on Brave and Chrome
I closed and opened the browser several times, it seems ok for now
Hoping it lasts

Thanks, sure it helps