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Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by mid-kid »

soraminazuki wrote: post #26
pimlottc wrote: post #3

What makes this better than having two full browser windows side by side?

The same reason people like tmux or split-pane terminals? Seriously, the amount of negative spins this thread attracted for a useful and harmless feature like this is weird.

I just think it goes to show how little the window management of desktop OSes has improved over the years that desktop applications have had to up the ante...

I also think the differing behaviour between different apps implementing split panes (e.g. keyboard controls for creating/switching) is very annoying. Somtimes this flies in the face of any desktop's native window splitting or tab support as e.g. an app stops supporting multiple windows. For example, current browsers don't have a good way to configure usage without tabs, and at some point removed support for setting the window icon to the site's favicon.

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by siliconpotato »

arnoooooo wrote: post #30

I've been pretty happy with ditching tabs altogether. I don't get the idea of tabs. Desktop manager already has workspaces and windows, do I really need yet another abstraction ? I use split view all the time, but with two browser windows.

what if you need 300 web pages open?

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by mid-kid »

spankalee wrote: post #22

I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers: - OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually. - A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other…

I could've sworn firefox had an "all tabs" preview button that looked like 4 blocks in a grid, before the Australis era. Can't find any pictures/video footage of it in action however.

Best I could find is: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-featu... But I'm not sure if this landed, or if it ended up functioning differently.

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #21

It's completely useless. Chrome had it first, and I already hated it there. Now when you rightclick, it takes the place of the "open in new tab" option that people have been using for ages. Who comes up with these fooken bad decisions? And why does Firefox feel the need to copy every questionable idea that Chrome's dev team pushes out? At this point, it would be better to just let users customize their own browser UI…

Agreed, it's more like "Two tabs side by side, right when you least expect it".

I'm sure someone wants this, but for me it's mostly a mis-click.

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by em-bee »

mid-kid wrote: post #33
spankalee wrote: post #22

I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers: - OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually. - A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other…

I could've sworn firefox had an "all tabs" preview button that looked like 4 blocks in a grid, before the Australis era. Can't find any pictures/video footage of it in action however. Best I could find is: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-featu... But I'm not sure if this landed, or if it ended up functioning differently.

i could have sworn the same, at least as an extension.

i just found this extension, but that's brand new: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff-tab-expos%...

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by bathtub365 »

soraminazuki wrote: post #26
pimlottc wrote: post #3

What makes this better than having two full browser windows side by side?

The same reason people like tmux or split-pane terminals? Seriously, the amount of negative spins this thread attracted for a useful and harmless feature like this is weird.

Labeling a legitimate question as “negative” while not really answering it is unproductive.

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by sourcegrift »

mid-kid wrote: post #33
spankalee wrote: post #22

I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers: - OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually. - A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other…

I could've sworn firefox had an "all tabs" preview button that looked like 4 blocks in a grid, before the Australis era. Can't find any pictures/video footage of it in action however. Best I could find is: https://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-ie-like-quick-tabs-featu... But I'm not sure if this landed, or if it ended up functioning differently.

Tab groups used to do that

Re: Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them

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Post by sillywalk »

spankalee wrote: post #22

I find this handy in Chrome occasionally. Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along. Two more OS-level windowing features I'd like to see in browsers: - OS X like Expose that shows a preview of all tabs for a window. That would help me find a tab visually. - A command to override the meaning of fullscreen to take over the whole tab, rather than be truly fullscreen. That would let me use other…

> Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along.

Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the top of windows, so you could have multiple windows stacked, but with their tabs visible on the top, but I don't recall a split-view.

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