Split View is complete trash

Brave split view is completely useless and terrible and is a point of frustration and should be removed entirely until it works properly

Description of the issue: Split view refuses to let you add 2 already open tabs together into one split view. Instead i must reproduce the chain of addresses to land on the exact same page again. Why can you not just right click or DRAG an already open tab into a newly created split view makes absoltely no sense. This is especially frustrating when the webpage i need to add refuses to open in the same tab and instead forces itself to open in a new tab regardless of browser settings

**Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1: open a split view with a tab already open, this creates a new split view with your selected tab and one empty tab or whatever your homepage is set to. 2. attempt to right click or drag a pre existing tab into the split view 3. fail every time. **

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!): result is you never get your pre exisitng tab to open into the newly created split view.

Expected result: you should be able to right click or drag a pre existing tab into split view.

Reproduces how often: EVERY SINGLE TIME WITHOUT FAIL

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): Linux Ubuntu 25.04 brave is on the latest edge version available on the snap repository

Additional Information: please fix or, remove split view. its a hardly used feature and is un necessary with operating system level snap windows anyways which is even baked into every linux distro except Arch that has been use by me.

I’m going to close this thread right after replying because this is not the way to report issues or provide feedback. I get it, you’re frustrated, but this entire thread – and your user name – is intentionally inflammatory and entirely unnecessary.

You have to actually have multiple tabs selected. Observe as I hold Command (Ctrl for Linux/Windows) as I click on two tabs and add them to a split view:

Agreed. You should be able to click and drag into split view. Good thing there’s already an open issue for this functionality:

If it’s unnecessary, then I would recommend just not using it.

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