Make a way to disable "Open link in split view" in the right click menu!

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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.

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As I said in a similar post:

Also:

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Yep.

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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):

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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 window
  • Ctrl+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…:slight_smile: