Brave is going to get a new feature that will make a lot of users happy. Brave CEO Brendan Eich confirmed that a native Workspaces feature is finally coming to the browser. This came as a response to a user who commented that they’ll stick with Vivaldi unless Brave picks up Workspaces. Eich replied to the user to say the feature is on the way. He also tagged a developer to provide the latest updates.

The Brave development team is already tracking the heavy lifting under GitHub issue 54738. The stated goal is to help people organize sets of windows and tabs into granular, saved categories. Common examples include dedicated spaces for Research, Shopping, or Work. The browser will save massive amounts of data associated with each specific workspace. This data includes open window sizes, active tabs, pinned tabs, tab group names, tab colors, and the backward navigation history for every single tab.

Based on details in the GitHub issue, Brave engineers are breaking the release into three distinct phases to manage the massive scope. Phase one focuses purely on a basic save and reload function. Brave users will soon find this initial version hidden behind a flag located at brave://flags/#brave-workspace. The development flag will remain disabled by default and require a manual toggle. This early implementation simply adds a basic Workspaces button to the main tab bar.

The flag currently exists on Brave Nightly builds, but it does nothing at the moment, at least in our testing.

Phase two introduces the necessary polish that will make the feature highly competitive. Users will be able to create fresh workspaces and switch between them instantly. Clicking a new workspace will automatically hide your current tabs and save their exact state. Every change you make to a tab or a group will save automatically in the background. You won’t ever need to click a manual save button to preserve your workflow. Background tabs will only load into memory when you actively click them to keep system resources low.

Some GitHub users practically begged Brave to adopt a single-window space switcher rather than opening multiple distinct windows. Brave contributor aguscruiz confirmed that a single-window interface functionally similar to Vivaldi is the absolute end goal.

They even shared a screenshot of how it might look (and it does look a lot like Vivaldi):

Phase three will eventually introduce cross-device syncing for heavy users. Brave plans to tie the entire Workspaces feature right into its existing sync system. You’ll be able to smoothly pull up a heavy research session from your work laptop straight onto your home PC.

Developers noted that adding a completely new sync type is technically complex. The team will strictly hold off on phase three until the core workspace functions operate flawlessly.

Workspaces is just the latest in a string of major updates aimed at power users and privacy advocates. Earlier this month, we also spotted a new Compact mode in the Nightly build that slims down the browser frame to maximize your screen real estate.

On top of these UI tweaks, Brave recently pushed native Containers to its desktop beta, allowing users to seamlessly isolate their browsing data and juggle multiple accounts without worrying about cross-site tracking.

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