Clock
October 27, 2025, 12:24pm
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Recently, I realised that despite how good the new NTP of Brave might look, it took away this major feature from the Top Sites: Ability to open them in new tab, new window, in private window and split view. These options were available in the previous NTP.
Please add them back!
Clock
October 27, 2025, 5:32pm
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@Mattches Kindly have a look into it.
@Clock so this actually is still there but you need to specifically click on the text/title of the top-site, rather than the tile itself.
I actually think this leads to some avoidable confusion so I’ve opened this issue for our devs to re-consider this functionality:
opened 06:53PM - 27 Oct 25 UTC
enhancement
suggestion
feature/new-tab
feature/user-interface
OS/Desktop
### Description
With the NTP refresh, if you want to invoke the right-click con… text menu for top-site tiles (to open link in new tab, private window, etc), you specifically need to right-click on the _text_/_title_ of the tile itself. I have seen several users request that we "bring right-click menu back" for NTP tiles because they are unaware of this, and assume that clicking on the tile itself will do this as it did before.
_(Right-click on tile 👇 )_
<img width="367" height="126" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b82f8f91-b93d-4b6b-b673-233266784fff" />
_(Right click on text/title of tile 👇 )_
<img width="383" height="284" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1b4168b2-433c-4836-9e06-1c559cfac880" />
Users should be able to provoke the context menu from anywhere on the tile. I would suggest that for removing or editing a tile, include an "Edit" icon in the corner of the tab as we had in the previous NTP top-site implementation for better usability.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Right-click on a top-site tile
2. Right-click on a top-site tile's text
### Actual result
Context menu only appears if top-site text is clicked
### Expected result
Right-clicking anywhere on tile should display context menu
### Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
### Brave version (brave://version info)
v1.83.120
### Channel information
- [x] release (stable)
- [x] beta
- [x] nightly
### Reproducibility
- [ ] with Brave Shields disabled
- [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
- [ ] in the latest version of Chrome
### Miscellaneous information
A couple reports:
https://community.brave.app/t/re-add-the-drop-down-menu-to-top-sites-upon-right-clicking/644772
https://community.brave.app/t/right-click-on-new-tab-icons-does-not-have-ability-to-open-in-a-new-tab-this-was-available-in-the-previous-user-interface/644658/5
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