Uncanny behavior on Brave: middleclick opens link and closes a random tab

[matto-in-cor]

Middleclick used to work fine, but in Brave it has a strange behavior. When I clic on a link to open it on a new tab, Brave closes another tab. It seems, but I'm not sure, that has something to do with tab groups. Brave Version 1.47.186 Chromium: 109.0.5414.119 (Official Build) (arm64) MacOS Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400)

[rxhanson]

Thanks for reporting. Can you send a screenshot of your Middle preferences or let me know what you have configured to act as a middle click? There are slight differences with how the different gestures work to register middle clicks.

Unfortunately, it's likely that this would have to be fixed Brave/Chromium side, as all Middle is doing is registering middle clicks.

[matto-in-cor]

I also tried disabling tab management extensions but nothing changed.

brave.middleclick.issue.mp4

[rxhanson]

Thanks for the additional info. I tested this out on my own and was unable to reproduce it.

Just to isolate the issue to Brave, do things work fine in other browsers?

I think the proper way to go about it is to report it to Brave. Since I cannot reproduce it, this is best reported by you. I don't mind adding details to the issue once it is created if necessary.

Submitting a bug to the Brave team

[matto-in-cor]

Try with the window in fullscreen mode, I noticed that in the normal window mode it works fine.

[rxhanson]

Hmm, I still can't reproduce this in fullscreen either. Does it happen with Middle configured for three finger click as well? Any chance you could try with a mouse with a physical middle button, without Middle running at all?

[matto-in-cor]

It makes no difference using the three finger click configuration, but if the fn+left click options is enabled and i fn+left click a link it works correctly!

[rxhanson]

Do you have any other middle clicking applications running, like BetterTouchTool?

[matto-in-cor]

No, I had installed that (perhaps years ago). Previously I installed the open source version I fount on GitHub but at a certain point it stopped working so I switched to this paid version.

... Ok, I checked in the activity manager and I found that there was an active as a process called "middleclick". I guess this was the problem, good work! I'm going to uninstall that, I bet this will solve the issue. Many thanks!

[rxhanson]

Great!