Ctrl+W does not close a tab until another tab is hovered

[luixxiul]

Describe the issue you encountered: Ctrl+W does not close a tab.

• Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): Debian

• Brave Version (revision SHA): 1c04c53

• Any related issues:

[luixxiul]

File -> Close on the main menu does not close tabs either

[luixxiul]

History -> Home also seem to be corrupted.

[NejcZdovc]

Is this limited to debian only?

[darkdh]

@NejcZdovc it happens on Mac too

[bsclifton]

@luixxiul do you have more info? There is a bad bug which may be causing this behavior:
#8640

Basically, if you mouse over any other tab... the Ctrl + W goes to that window instead. So it can appear that it's not working when it really does. This also would explain the other issues (since the action would be sent to the last tab which had a mouse hover)

[luixxiul]

@bsclifton yeah after I move mouse over other tabs the shortcut/menu started working.

[bsclifton]

@luixxiul hovering over another tab (because of the bug) should be causing that tab to closed or given input from the URL bar. Basically, once a tab is focused, it's as if you switched to it (even if you didn't). This is the bug that's captured

Do you think this issue here is a duplicate?

[luixxiul]

I could reproduce the bug you found, though I cannot tell if they have the same cause (surely they are related)

[NejcZdovc]

@bsclifton @luixxiul I am right now trying to find out why #8640 is happening. I have some leads, but nothing concrete yet.

[NejcZdovc]

@luixxiul can you try it again with the latest master? I think this should be fixed now.

[bsclifton]

Fixed with #8782