Can you still turn off Split View in Brave? Here’s what changed (and what you can’t do now)

If you’ve been trying to disable Split View in Brave Browser using the old brave://flags method, you’re probably frustrated right now. That toggle is gone, and there’s currently no way to completely turn off the feature.

Here’s what happened. Chromium (the open-source project that powers Brave, Chrome, and Edge) removed the Split View experimental flag from chrome://flags lastweek.

Since Brave inherits most of its code directly from Chromium, the flag disappeared from brave://flags too. Brave moderator Saoiray clarified on Reddit and the Brave Community forum that this wasn’t a decision by Brave’s team.

The bigger annoyance is how Split View broke muscle memory for longtime users. When you right-click a link now, “Open link in Split View” sits at the top of the context menu, right where “Open in new window” used to be. Brave pushed that old option further down the list. Users who rely on right-click workflows to open links in new windows have been complaining on GitHub that they keep accidentally triggering Split View instead.

Brave developer ‘simonhong’ responded to a complaint on GitHub saying that the team is working on a fix. The plan is to reposition “Open link in Split View” to the bottom of the first section in the context menu. This should help reduce accidental clicks.

The change has been merged into brave-core#33958 and will show up in Brave Nightly 1.89.x first before riding the update train to stable builds.

A separate GitHub request is asking for a full disable option, but there’s no response from any Brave devs on it yet. As the mod on Reddit noted, Brave’s team has over 10,000 open issues in their tracker and a much smaller staff compared to Google or Microsoft, so priorities don’t always match what individual users want.

This isn’t the first time a Chromium change has frustrated Brave users. Back in January, Chrome and Brave removed tab scrolling buttons when Chromium 144 dropped that feature. If you need Split View gone completely, you’ll have to wait and see if Brave decides to build a custom toggle themselves.

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