element-hq / element-hq/element-web

red overlay over chat area

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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. Open element web in safari
2. Open a few other tabs in safari and only use them for a while
3. Switch back to the element tab and sometimes this red overlay appears

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sometimes if you're patient, I have already seen the transition to the red overlay while looking at the chat, bat that's very rare, so I suspect it doesn't necessarily has something to do with switching browser tabs.

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(I have added some black boxes over the messages to respect privacy).

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?
It looks normal like the first visit

#### What happened instead?
A read overlay appeared over the chat area that only disappears when reloading the page, switching the chat to a different room or opening the browser console (without doing anything in there).

### Operating system

macOS

### Browser information

Safari 18.1.1

### URL for webapp

app.element.io

### Application version

Element version: 1.11.87 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.7.2 (517d99b), Vodozemac 0.7.0

### Homeserver

_No response_

### Will you send logs?

No

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