Some brief info:
This week Chromium removed the Split View flag that had existed in chrome://flags. That change was inherited by Brave and so no longer is at brave://flags either. These are experimental flags and never promised to stay.
To emphasize, this is not anything introduced by Brave. For those not happy, blame the Chromium project. If you look, you’ll see this is in Edge, Chrome, Comet, and other Chromium based browsers.
Enabling/Disabling Split View
As of this moment, there is no way to completely disable Split View. The dev team at Brave will be taking a look and have a discussion whether this is something they would like to dedicate time into trying to implement themselves.
Context (right click) menu
When Split View was introduced by Chromium, it was put in the location as Open in new window had been when right clicking on a link and they moved the Open in new window down lower. Again, this was inherited by Brave since it was pushed through in the Chromium code.
Everyone at Brave has been seeing the feedback from users and there is an open Github issue. At the time of me writing this, I don’t know of any ETA but they are at least looking into it. One of the developers has been assigned to it and it has a Priority 3 (P3) ranking. You can try to track that at the link below.
Final Note:
Just keep in mind that Brave has a much smaller employee base and budget compared to Microsoft, Google, and some of these other companies. There is also a lot on their plate, with more than 10,000 requests in their issue tracker in addition to all of their normal work. People are constantly asking for a lot of changes or additions. The priorities that get attention from the dev team won’t always align with what each of us individually think are important. It’s not that they aren’t listening to us or trying, but more that they just have their own little “battle plans” to try to get us the best experience as they can.
I do see another user opened a Github request to add an option to completely disable Split View as well. Unlike the link I shared earlier, this one doesn’t have any dev interaction yet. I’m not sure if they’ll do anything with it, open their own, or if this will be a “wontfix” aspect. But figured I’d at least share it as well:
