Disable sharing-qr-code-generator feature.

[mkarolin]

Per @rebron, this feature should be disabled by default in Brave.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Brave browser
2. Navigate to any website (e.g. brave.com)
3. Click inside the location bar
4. An action icon shows up in the location bar. When clicked a bubble with QR code shows up.
   

Expected behavior:

• No action icon shows up in the step 4 above.

[rodrigoswz]

Why? This is a great chromium feature

[dentistformyeye]

@rodrigoswz I don't know about specific privacy/security problems, but the feature is unnecessary. If you use DuckDuckGo, search for qr <paste URL here>: example.

[stephendonner]

Verified PASSED using

Brave	1.23.66 Chromium: 89.0.4389.114 (Official Build) beta (x86_64)
Revision	1ea76e193b4fadb723bfea2a19a66c93a1bc0ca6-refs/branch-heads/4389@{#1616}
OS	macOS Version 11.2.3 (Build 20D91)

Verified using the inline testplan here that there is no longer a QR-code generator icon in the URL bar, upon focus/click.

[ghost]

Why removing this feature, I see no disadvantages ... I found this feature realy comfortable

[NathanaelA]

@rebron @mkarolin - Can you give a good or security reason to actually remove this feature?
This also isn't listed in the features you disable list so there doesn't seem to be any reason anywhere why this feature was actually removed.

[rodrigoswz]

I would also like to know, does this use Google servers or anything similar to generate qrcodes?

I used it a lot, now I will have to look for some extension (or use the DuckDuckGo flag mentioned above).

Which doesn't make sense for me since it was something native to Chromium...

[rebron]

If you'd like to add this function into the url bar, you can do it here: brave://flags/#sharing-qr-code-generator
This type of feature is why we built extensions into the browser, to allow whatever feature user's want while doing our best to maintain some UI/UE discipline to appeal to the majority of our users.

With that said, we can evaluate whether to surface/highlight this feature makes sense down the road and evaluate its current placement/prominence. For the time being, the flag or an extension are your workarounds.

@rodrigoswz FLoC is also native to Chromium and we removed that as a recent example items we remove/neutralize.

[NathanaelA]

@rebron - Thanks, I've had the QR flag active since it was a early field test, and it still wasn't showing up -- which is why I started digging into what happened it. Do you know if a recent update recently fixed the flag to work again, because it is showing in my URL bar now (Yay!) and it wasn't 6 days ago...

[Taomyn]

The option to enable it via flags no longer works - no icon or right-click menu appears.

Version 1.24.82 Chromium: 90.0.4430.93 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[bsclifton]

Opened up a security/privacy review so we can evaluate this - thanks for your patience and feedback all 😄 If that looks clean, we can re-enable. There is still a branding issue - but @jonathansampson has a potential fix we can do for the dino that shows up
#11606

[bsclifton]

OK folks - our next Nightly will have this feature re-enabled 😄 (merged with brave/brave-core#8825)

Next step would be to "Bravify" it if we get the chance 😛 The dino isn't all that bad though

[soodmax]

I still do not see this feature in brave. Is this now enabled? It was really useful. How do I get it in brave now?

[stephendonner]

I still do not see this feature in brave. Is this now enabled? It was really useful. How do I get it in brave now?

@soodmax it can be found in the nightly build, available here: https://brave.com/download-nightly/

[Amariithynar]

How in the everloving crap do I re-disable this annoying function?

[rodrigoswz]

How in the everloving crap do I re-disable this annoying function?

Seriously? What's the problem with just not using it?

If you don't click on this little icon, you'll never know it exists.

[Amariithynar]

How in the everloving crap do I re-disable this annoying function?

Seriously? What's the problem with just not using it?

If you don't click on this little icon, you'll never know it exists.

I don't care about the icon in the URL bar that much; however, having it shoved in my face in the right-click context menu every single time, moreover with it having its own separate section to even further bloat it? THAT I have serious issue with.

Shown here with no extensions; with extensions, especially those used frequently like Form History Control or UBlock element blocker or such, it gets much worse. Furthermore, there's a thick bar in the menu as shown below that is completely unnecessary that was added with the addition of the QR code menu option.

It may not seem like much to you, but it's a fair amount of space that I now have to accomodate with every right-click context menu usage, and even moreso it's extra space that forces the menu to open upwards further away from the bottom of the screen than before.

[NathanaelA]

@Amariithynar - Not sure why it has a right mouse context, can't say I've ever noticed it. But I can understand your annoyance with it. I don't use the context menu as often.

I would open a new bug report for either removing the option in the context menu, or adding a new setting to enable/disable it in whole as the flags option seems to be gone now... If you know programming, then adding a PR to remove the context option would probably be fastest method to get back to your "normal".

[Amariithynar]

@NathanaelA I'm not a programmer myself, unfortunately, and know nothing about fiddling with the context menu at all, either. I'll try opening a new issue referencing this one.

[Neurotoxin001]

Can you please give option to disable it?