Is it possible to make a way to disable “Open link in split view” from the right click menu?
It is positioned between two commonly used options that I use, so it’s beyond frustrating that it appears there now!
I don’t know how many people actually use “split view”, but I am definitely not one of them, and would love to have a way to remove it from the right click menu.
As I said in a similar post:
Also:
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Yep.
Screenshot from straight up Chromium. More importantly, --disable-features=SidePanelPinning,SideSearch no longer works either meaning this is now officially “baked in”.
Even Edge (renamed to split screen):
Not a single Chromium fork attempted removal of this.
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I did know it wasn’t something Brave changed, but I was hoping, beyond hope that they could find a way to get rid of if for those of us who don’t want or use it.
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I hear you. It could potentially come up but I think such a thing is going to be “low priority” overall. Someone might have better luck trying to get some requests in upstream in Chromium.
While people at Brave could build something out, I just don’t tend to see them do much on things like that. And since I do not know programming languages, I’m completely ignorant as to how difficult it might be to build out the changes for context menu or to add a toggle for things like split view to just enable/disable it entirely.
I also remember a long time ago talking to people about using extensions to do it, but it was made clear that Chromium doesn’t let you modify the browser level stuff. The most they could do is build a second context menu of their own which might overlay on top, which you could be able to add, remove, or reorder. And I do think they have extensions for that, but it’s such a niche thing that I don’t see it much.
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Don’t forget that rather than doing right click for it, you could just use keyboard combination too. Such as
Shift+Click= Open in new windowCtrl+Click= Open in new tab
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In addition, “middle” clicking does that too, which has been my habit for over a decade now. (Middle clicking tabs also closes them without even needing to attempt hitting the “X” on the tabs as well.)
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Thank you guys for the shortcuts, which I will start using now…
If the only “option” is that this horrible thing is here forever and we all just have to learn to dance around it, then what’s the point? I like this browser and would prefer not to be pushed off of it, but if the choices are “Leave” or “Undo decades of muscle memory and computer experience to account for some psychopath UI designer forcing garbage into the right-click menu”, then that’s not much of a choice at all.
The whole reason so many people left Chrome for Brave was because Google mandated that adblockers would no longer work on Chrome, while Brave supported them… But in this case, Google’s word is law? That doesn’t make any sense.
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This.
If i am understanding all of this correctly, there used to be an ability to disable the split screen option that appears in the right click dropdown in “brave://flags”, but now that is gone because it’s Chromium and they no longer offer that option. So, now we are all stuck with either dealing with it or moving to something completely different to avoid it. is this correct? I came here looking for a way to turn it off because the option to do so no longer appears in “brave://flags”. What a let down.
@bosshogg24 basically, that’s correct. Chromium, which is kind of the core of Brave, Edge, Chrome, and others, changed the code upstream to remove the flag and they also haven’t added any toggles to enable/disable the feature anywhere.
Brave tends to more closely mirror the UI changes made by Chromium, whereas Edge builds and maintains a lot of extra changes. So in that aspect, at least Chrome has the Open in split view listed lower on the right click (context) menu.
Ideally changes will be made on some of the others, but not sure when or if it will happen. But this is indeed an inherited change from the Chromium project upstream
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Think of it this way. Brave is like a rented home, and the home belongs to Chromium. Chromium once had a switch on the wall that controlled split view, and we the Brave users, could toggle it like the other tenants (forks like Edge, etc).
Chromium removed the switch, and permanently wired it on and closed the cover. Us tenants no longer can control that switch.
Now, could the “switch” be wired back in? Sure, but here’s the thing, once a feature like this is “baked in”, it’s not as easy as just making a switch again, because there’s additional code and logic underneath now missing as well (the hole in the wall, the bracket where the switch once was, picture it as plastered over now).
That’s about the best way I can explain why I know this one is a hard one to restore.
The whole reason why Brave became the browser of choice for so many people was that, when Google decided to kill adblockers, Brave continued to run off of Chromium while still allowing adblockers.
But now Google has decreed that the right-click menu is shuffled, and that’s it? It’s not a priority, it’d be annoying to patch out, go undo your decades of muscle memory instead? And I’ve seen zero official acknowledgement about this, on this site or on any of the official support channels, which suggests to me that, no, this isn’t something that will ever be addressed.
So if I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it, but right now it sounds like I’m no longer welcome on the browser I’ve used for years, and which I’ve endorsed and suggested to my family and friends.
On what? That the most recent version of Chromium just removed the flag? It hasn’t even been a week yet. Do you think they just sit on their ass doing nothing all day and will immediately put out some huge press release for every minor thing people complain about?
They had mentioned before about the flag as a way to disable it.
That’s just you and others seeking drama. Be realistic. Give it time. They tend to work on things when able. But they also have been upfront and honest that they have a smaller team and quite a small budget compared to Google, Microsoft, and others. This means things they and users want can’t always be done. They have to focus their priorities.
That said, they try. Someone made a Github and devs have assigned some to things like the idea of context menu changes. But it is P3. So on a priority level of 1-5 it’s at a 3. Sometimes it might get finished quick, but I’ve seen P3 sit years without getting touched. It’s all going to depend on how simple of a fix it is for them and what other projects are on the table.
And keep in mind, things are ALWAYS changing. It can be a lot more work to do things than people think. They still have other requests/issues on their plate as well. For example https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/52045 where people were mad about Chromium removing tab scrolling flag. To which official response was:
This is likely the same type of reply for this. It’s a change from upstream and they’ll look what they can do about it. I’m not sure what else you want said or done. It’s not like they are going to put all the more important issues aside to prioritize this.
I don’t think that not wanting to entirely migrate to a new browser, after years of using this one and telling all who would listen about how it’s the best browser available, is “seeking drama”.
I’m glad that in at least one place, that being the github page, it’s acknowledged, but if it could take years, then that means that yes, I do need to entirely switch browsers, which I don’t want to do.
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@th3overseer drama thing more heated moment, but just seeing the whole thing like:
That just was off-putting and is where I was getting at. Somehow exaggerations start coming in, people attack, and conversations get derailed. I should have responded differently than I did in it, but ended up “matching the tone” so to speak while also just trying to be honest on expectations.
As to changing browsers, that’s up to you. Though that would be a lot more “muscle memory” to adapt to than this would be. It’s already been seen that you would have to ditch any Chromium based browser overall. So I guess go to Firefox?
Wish I knew more on what the devs were up to. Things like:
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Brave Translate to work on highlighted text should be possible but it hasn’t been done.
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Setting the search part of Settings so when clicking on the magnifying glass on the upper right doesn’t shift to the far upper left for text input.
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Letting Android add custom search engines like we can on iOS or Desktop.
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Setting NTP to allow people to reposition or resize cards (like the Clock or Search)
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Fixing bookmarks in sidebar to be the same or similar as bookmark bar or manager
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Auto Dark Mode, especially after the recent Chromium adjustments made it worse.
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Putting Playlist as options in Desktop and Android
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Auto hide tabs
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Over a freakin menu item? Talk about dramatic.
At least Edge appears to have moved it to the bottom so not buggering up everyone that has been using browsers for the last 20 years.
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Doesn’t change the fact they are being overly dramatic over a menu item, threatening to leave a browser because of it.
I think there’s more important things to worry about, like CVE’s fixed in the latest update which were extremely important, etc. The namesake of Brave.
So sure, we can go down the “At least Edge moved it down the menu” which is true, but would you truly leave a browser over something so small? That menu changes all the time and has over the past 20 years, so the “20 years” makes no sense.
I’m 40 and have been using browsers since Lynx and Mosaic. What is in the contextual menu has not remained the same over 20 years, so again, they are indeed overly dramatic over something so small. At least Brave leaves the icon so you can spot it, and know if you don’t want to click it, just avoid the ONE listing with an icon. If that’s still an issue, perhaps a GUI is not for them.
That’s my honest thought on this, it’s silly, dramatic, and was called out rightfully for it.
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I never said I was leaving because of it, someone else did.
And if you are going to make sweeping statements about things, how about getting your facts right first?
FYI I’m 50+, been using Windows since pre Win3, and know how to ask a question before I just spout off. So I asked Brave “when did internet explorer introduce right click to open new window“ and do you know what it said?
Internet Explorer 6, released in 2001, was the first version to introduce the “Open in new window” option in the right-click context menu for hyperlinks.
Isn’t it amazing what a few seconds of ‘I had better make sure my facts are right or I will look stupid’ can get you.
I never came here for an argument, I came here to post my views in a generally constructive manner, and some twit decides to pick a fight.
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