When opening Brave on a Mac by following a link from another app, URL does not appear in frontmost window

[davidtemkin]

Description

When opening Brave on a Mac by clicking on a link from a different app (e.g., Mail, Slack), and Brave is not already running, Brave opens as expected, but the page corresponding to the link does not appear in the frontmost window.

Steps to Reproduce

2. Make sure Brave is the default browser
3. Open a bunch of windows/tabs
4. Quit Brave
5. Follow a link in another Mac app
6. Brave opens

Actual result:

The desired link/tab is opened but not in the front window.

Expected result:

The desired link/tab is opened and is frontmost (window is frontmost)

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced but may work sometimes

Brave version (about:brave info)

Version 0.55.2 Chromium: 70.0.3528.4 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)

Reproducible on current release:

Actually, yes.

Found on Mac; may or may not occur on other platforms.

[rebron]

Need to investigate. Can't reproduce.

[rebron]

cc: @kjozwiak to reproduce but it deals with restore tab/focus.

[kjozwiak]

Managed to reproduce this pretty easily on macOS 10.14.2 x64. Happens 100% of the time using the following STR:

• load brave.com and basicattentiontoken.org on Window A
• load linkedin.com and duckduckgo.como on Window B
• ensure that Brave is the default browser
• close Brave
• click on a link in another application like Slack

What happens in the above situation is that the opened link opens in Window C but Windows B is frontmost with the active tab being the one before clicking on the external link. If you have a lot of windows opened, it's a pain to find the link that was just opened.

Reproduced with the following builds:

Brave	0.59.35 Chromium: 72.0.3626.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	ac8b982e05014492d1bd7d317628a4f22a97ffa0-refs/branch-heads/3626@{#796}
OS	Mac OS X

Brave	0.60.28 Chromium: 72.0.3626.96 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	84098ee7ef8622a9defc2ef043cd8930b617b10e-refs/branch-heads/3626@{#836}
OS	Mac OS X

[kjozwiak]

Also reproducible on Chrome: 75.0.3770.80 (Official Build) (64-bit) using the STR from both #1040 (comment) and #1040 (comment).