Add a configurable mouse/keyboard shortcut to "Open Link In Split View"

[insilications]

Platforms

Desktop

Description

Add a configurable mouse/keyboard shortcut to "Open Link in Split View" to eliminate the friction of having to open a link's context menu and click "Open Link in Split View" to open it in a split view.

[bsclifton]

cc: @hamirmahal

also cc: @simonhong @fallaciousreasoning

[fallaciousreasoning]

cc @rebron any ideas what we'd want this shortcut to be?

(on Linux, and probably Windows too)

• Ctrl + Click (open in new tab)
• Ctrl + Shift + Click (open in new tab)
• Shift + Click (open in new window)
• Alt + Click (download link)
• Meta + Click (nothing)

We could probably take Ctrl+Shift+Click or Alt+Shift+Click, but maybe Meta+Click is the way (not sure what the equivalent on OSX would be - CTRL+Click?)

[insilications]

Ctrl+Shift+Click, which is an easy-to-remember variation of Ctrl+Click (open in new tab) and Shift+Click (open in new window), seems like a good default choice to me.

[hamirmahal]

I'm actually not familiar with the "Open Link in Split View" feature.

Do we want to add a demo of what that looks like? It might help whoever ends up taking this ticket.

Add a configurable mouse/keyboard shortcut to "Open Link in Split View" to eliminate the friction of having to open a link's context menu and click "Open Link in Split View" to open it in a split view.

I don't see it in this link's context menu.

[insilications]

I don't see it in this link's context menu.

The brave-split-view flag (brave://flags/#brave-split-view) is currently disabled in the stable channel (#36986), as tracked by the #38302 task. I am using the beta channel and I enabled the brave-split-view flag.

[fallaciousreasoning]

Yeah, it should show up when brave://flags/#brave-split-view is enabled in Nightly or Beta (and possibly also release now)

[insilications]

Any plans?

[fallaciousreasoning]

I think @simonhong is doing a bit of polish on the feature at the moment, so might come out in the current Nightly (1.75) but we'll see 🤞