I know Firefox has a Split View feature; however, it’s not as convenient as Vivaldi or the Arc browser. I love how The browser company implemented the Split View screen. Firefox Split View is pretty limited, and I’m unsure if it has improved since its release.
What does the community think about that?
Here is an example of Arc browser split view:
- starman ( @starman@programming.dev ) English11•5 months ago
Why not use your window manager / compositor for this feature?
- LWD ( @LWD@lemm.ee ) 6•5 months ago
For one thing, you don’t have to struggle with a shrunken top toolbar.
There’s a good reason a significant and increasing number of browsers (including Floorp, a Firefox fork) and other applications include view-splitting within them.
There’s a reason Mozilla made Side View for Firefox.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 5•5 months ago
Yeah, just drag the tab out and create a new window. This post reads more like an ad for the Arc browser and isn’t related to Firefox. I don’t even know how to create Split View.
I’m using Firefox Nightly along with Arc Browser, and I think there’s room for improvement in Firefox. It’s just a suggestion, nothing more.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months ago
How do I use Split View in Firefox?
There’s an official add-on by Firefox
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 1•5 months ago
I have this addon. This is not Split View.
Even Floorp (Firefox fork) has a built-in split view, however it pretty limited. https://file.coffee/u/oEGzVEe8jr2N8Z6gtqL1F.gif
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months ago
This is just the Firefox addon you have linked previously that is called “Side View”. They just changed the limitation of the sideview panel. You can remove the restriction too, but need to edit files and create folder in your Firefox user folder. Obviously this is not something most people do, but I am used to it and edited a lot in the past.
Here is a screenshot where I drag the size of the Side View / Split View to half of window (it can take entire size, normal tab is on the left and side view on the right):
https://superuser.com/questions/1276800/customize-the-maximum-width-of-the-firefox-sidebar
That’s what I was referring to as Firefox “Split View”
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 1•5 months ago
For the Split View function, how do you activate it in Firefox? And why not just use a second Firefox window instead splitting a tab? I mean what would improve it if doing the split and what exactly is limited in the Firefox implementation of Split View in your opinion? If you have suggestions to improve, then you need to be more specific.
- NotAnArdvark ( @NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
I kind of feel this way about tabs, but everyone loves tabs so much I’m often too embarrassed to say anything.
Plasma (KDE) and Windows can both stack lots of windows just fine, so, why not let the window manager handle this and keep the browser more focused on browser tasks?
- Piece_Maker ( @Piece_Maker@feddit.uk ) English1•5 months ago
Wait, so instead of using tabs in your browser you just… put separate windows on top of each other, and use your taskbar/keyboard shortcut to switch between them?
- Xirup ( @Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•5 months ago
Everyone says “do it with your compositor” but I don’t think anyone who says that has ever really tried the convenience of split view.
My biggest problem with simply opening two Firefox tabs is that my tabs split, and sure, I can just drag them around, but for me (TWM user) I prefer to be able to do everything from the keyboard, and moving tabs between windows is not something that can be done do with key shortcuts
- Sunny' 🌻 ( @Sunny@slrpnk.net ) 2•5 months ago
Unrelated to the OP, but your Unraid docker dashboard seems to be more horizontal than vertical, as in the apps are lining up horizontally. Is this something you did yourself? Don’t recall that being an option in Unraid. And am now all too curious about how you achieved it 😅
I’m using a plugin called FolderView
- Sunny' 🌻 ( @Sunny@slrpnk.net ) 2•5 months ago
Nice one, thanks 😊
Np (:
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English1•5 months ago
I think they applied some kind of hack to do it. If you have a look, you can see that half of the columns doesn’t actually contain the info that it’s supposed to.