I see this has comeup before and has been closed without a clear response. I made a similar response to google a few years and they’re response tabs are better. I am a *nix system engineer and do not use a desktop enviroment but a tile manager such as i3. So in essence new windows are tabs within my keyboard shortcut control system. It’s literally the only thing stopping this from being my default browser. I know I can shift+click but it seems such a trivial feature to add.
I’m new to Brave and surprised that opening tab or link in a new window is still not available by default. Is anyone home at the Brave Development Office?
I opened another request basically identical to this.
On all of my operating systems, I have features that the OS provides that make navigating Windows really nice so that I never want a tab and I always want a new window.
On Windows, Alt-Tab gives me previews of the windows I have open. If I have a browser window with multiple tabs, the preview only contains the top tab. Not awesome. Same with the Windows Taskbar. I don’t ever have these grouped. I always have windows separate so I can single-click to get the the task I want.
On Linux (Ubuntu), I have the Windows key mapped to show me a tiled, clickable preview of all open windows. Super simple to see what task I want, click it, and get to work. A bit like “Mission Control” on Mac.
On Mac, I use an extension called Contexts that, among other things, when I Command-Tab, all windows, regardless of the application the are a part of, show in a flat list. The list includes window titles. I can navigate among the windows using Vi or arrow keys. This again makes it super convenient to move among tasks. When multiple tabs appear on a window, only the top tab is in the list.
In short, I find the OS to a MUCH more convenient way to navigate among tasks so long as tasks are separate windows.