Nice for people that use it I suppose. I don't see a use case for it (nor have I ever heard of anybody doing this) but I'll definitely give it a spin.
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I can see myself using it occasionally for the same reason I do in the IDE, i.e. to easily look at two pages at the same time.
surely you can just open two browser windows for this
yes, but that requires opening them, then resizing them and moving them to be beside each other; it's possible, but not convenient
By that logic we wouldn't need tabbed browsing at all, I remember browsing without it on IE6. :P
But why do we split a tab instead of having side by side tabs?
What's the difference?
Well, it seems like splitting a tab into two is just two tabs: read: we can already have two or more tabs in all modern browsers. But “side by side tabs” describes what is actually happening.
Honestly, this is a difficult one to name. Even though splitting a tab into two isn’t what’s going on, “split tabs” might be the best they can do. It’s just more evidence that this feature is a bit weird, and why it hasn’t been a feature in Firefox, Chrome and Safari yet. Difficult to name succinctly and correctly, and it basically starts doing window management inside of a browser window.
Also, why stop at splitting the tab in half? Lets stack them too and have a quad view with a tab in each quadrant of the main tab.
Edit: ohh, call them Subtabs. And put them in a tab next to normal tabs.
There's a ton of use cases for it
This should be your window manager's responsibility.
That's silly, there's lots of stuff that a browser could do with split tabs that a window manager would not be responsible for supporting. Applying search to both tabs simultaneously, for example.
Should Firefox get rid of tabs themselves? That could also be done by the window manager.
what a braindead take on many fronts. to start with, browsers have chrome that will take up space, especially if you use a vertical tab layout. Plus the UX can be made much simpler by including it in the browser.
Yeah, managing windows is difficult. That’s why Windows users usually prefer to maximize everything, and the platform does not really prioritize drag and drop. Dragging and dropping between maximized windows? Cringe.
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I want to be able to have multiple FF accounts and be able to be logged in on multiple at the same time.
This sounds like a nice feature, especially if you’re using side tabs. Hope it doesn’t consume too much of their time though. We don’t always need new UI features in browsers. I’d rather they be spending the time supporting new CSS standards and such, but I do appreciate the hard work.
I really missed this when I switched from Konqueror to Firefox a long time ago. Nice to see it happening.