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Vivaldi's tab tilling add-on in Firefox (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Vivaldi (and Edge) have this absolutely wonderful capability that allows me to split one tab into two or four at the same time.

At least in my workflow it's quite useful because I usually work with several tabs open and sometimes two related tabs (say, a document I'm reading and a document I'm replying to according to that one), I know that I can perfectly have another Firefox window open next to it and fulfill that function, but I wish I could do it directly from Firefox.

Does anyone know of an add-on that fulfills this purpose? Or maybe a dev who is developing it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it really that different from having multiple windows? I don't understand why it is such a important feature that others in the thread make it out to be. Feels like I am missing some details, just curious on what the actual difference is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Workarounds are generally bad in most software situations. Yes we could tile the windows instead of the tabs, but

We would have to put them all back in one window when exiting to get them saved
Alternatively we could use profiles, but that's a hassle on startup.
It probably eats up more resources
If we wanted to relocate our "Firefox workplace" to somewhere else (let's say another monitor) we would have to drag multiple windows.
On linux some window managers are just not there with tiling yet (and they might never be).
Also it looks bad and is a workaround to something that should just be. Hope I didn't miss anything, and you sir have a nice day :)

[–] WereCat 2 points 7 months ago

Also if you could easily tile multiple windows it would use significantly more screen real estate as each separate window will have its own top bar