Hide, Remove, or Move: "Open link in split view" context-menu action

[arianevans]

Capability Request: Simplify Context Menu actions - by removing “Open link in split view”

1. Enable ability to action Open a Link in (New Tab|New Window|New Private) in context menus without risk of false positive selection of unrelated features like new UI/UX “Split View” action. Explicit-allow context menu would be ideal.

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2. Enable removal of “Open link in split view” action from all context windows. Explicit-deny is ugly, but works.

Opportunities to solve:

When I accidentally trigger split view, it breaks my workflow and some of my UI/UX automation, requiring me to stop, determine what broke, manually undo the unwanted view, and re-open in tab or window (depending on use-case). It is a constant cognitive tax from a feature I will never use.

Security Implications: this feature also forces unauthorized UI behavior:

Previously, I had explicitly disabled “Split View” and “side-by-side” flags in Brave. Recent updates effectively blocked my explicit permission, forcing this explicitly-deauthorized UX into my workflow. Is silent scope-suppression an ideal AuthZ model and best practice to propagate, in an agentic AuthZ world?

How can this issue be reproduced?

1. Launch Brave Browser + Load browser content with links
2. Trigger context/action-menu over link
   1. (Default trigger: right-click mouse, or shift+F10 in windows IF mouse context persists sufficiently)
3. Contemplate why “Change UI Mode” feature embedded in “New Object” UX list.

Expected result:

Action = New Window | New Private Window

Generally for automation I use new windows.Window, to leverage windowId. Prefer not to deal with arrays of tabs and their permission issues, or attempt to parse splitViewIds.

Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.87.186

Additional Information: Reference:

10/2025:

Split View Settings In Options

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forum: brave feature requests, desktop requests
tags: linux

10-11/2025:

Please let me turn off split view

I don’t know when it happened, but on right click there is now an “Open link in split view” on the second option. I have muscle memory for opening link in a new window/tab so I am constantly clicking on this, and I don’t want it, it’s not easy to exit the split view and on certain sites it can load audio on both tabs and cause overlapping sounds. Ideally it would be completely removed from my right click menu, so how do I do that?

forum: browser support, desktop support
tags: windows

How do I remove "Split View?"

Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced? Right click on a link and the option to open the link in “Split View” is presented. I do not use this feature and would like to remove it as an option when right-clicking on a link. How can I do this? Thanks

forum: browser support, desktop support
tags: browser

10-12/2025:

How Do I Turn Off Split View Option?

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forum: browser support
tags: windows browser feedback performance

[MasterLink]

It was removed from Chromium itself (the entire mechanism to make it switchable) and is now a permanently baked in Feature. Every Chromium browser is now forced this way, and once the mechanism (the lock) is removed, the key no longer controls anything.