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Currently, Orion only allows one YouTube video to be open in a window at a time. This can be inconvenient for users who want to watch multiple videos at the same time or switch between videos quickly. I suggest that Orion allow users to open multiple YouTube windows, similar to how Chrome and other browsers do.

This feature would allow users to:

  • Watch multiple YouTube videos at the same time.
  • Switch between videos more quickly.
  • Create "spaces" for different types of YouTube videos, such as music videos, tutorials, or podcasts.

Other browsers, such as Chrome, already allow users to open multiple YouTube windows

This feature is well-implemented and does not have any negative impact on the user experience. I believe that Orion would benefit from adding this feature as well.

I would be happy to provide more information about this feature if needed. Thank you for your consideration.

I hope this is helpful!


  • Vlad replied to this.

    mihai_chindris

    Orion only allows one YouTube video to be open in a window at a time

    Can yo clarify this? Do you mean Orion Web App?

    How would user open mutliple windows?

        Let me rephrase: The YouTube site that you can install locally as a web app via Orion > Tools > Install this site as an app does not currently allow you to open more than one YouTube window as you can with the YouTube web app installed from Chrome, and therefore you cannot switch between multiple YouTube windows as you can with the YouTube web app installed from Chrome.

        I don't know the inner workings of Chrome's YouTube web app, but I like that I can have multiple YouTube videos stacked together and that I can watch any video I want from the stack at any time by clicking either Subscriptions or Explore, which opens a new window where I can 'save' a YouTube video and add it to the stack.

        Does this help?

        PS: I probably should've titled the post --Allow multiple windows to open from within Orion's YouTube web app--, sorry.

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        Currently, Orion only allows one YouTube video to be open in a window at a time Orion only allows you to open one YouTube window with the YouTube web application from Orion. This can be inconvenient for users who want to watch multiple videos at the same time or switch between videos quickly. I suggest that Orion allow users to open multiple YouTube windows, similar to how Chrome and other browsers do Orion allow users to have multiple YouTube windows open at the same time, similar to Chrome and other browsers.

          ForumNinja404 long story short, that's it.

          I've thought of mentioning 'instances', but for some reason or another I chose to actually go with 'windows'.

          • Vlad replied to this.

              There are some places where this behavior is desirable, like YouTube or Wikipedia. Other times it may not, like Zoom or MS Teams. I'm guessing this should be an additional checkbox in the web app installation menu to prevent unwanted opening of multiple windows.

                @mihai_chindris

                I don't know the inner workings of Chrome's YouTube web app, but I like that I can have multiple YouTube videos stacked together and that I can watch any video I want from the stack at any time by clicking either Subscriptions or Explore, which opens a new window where I can 'save' a YouTube video and add it to the stack.

                Can you maybe post a video of this? its still unclear to me if its having multiple windows of a single webapp, or if theres something different about the chrome youtube webapp

                  Vlad changed the title to Allow multiple windows to open from within Orion's YouTube web app .

                    possibly cmd+n to open it at the original site homepage. more instances seems like a good idea , yea

                    eirk changed the title to Allow multiple windows for web apps .
                      4 months later

                      Brief Summary
                      Allow an option to enable creating of new windows in web-apps

                      Details:
                      An option to enable new windows (like a checkbox) when creating web-apps. This will be really useful for some web-apps created using notion.so and google docs. and keeping that option off by default will avoid unnecessary bugs in other web apps (I guess). Please implement this I hope you've disabled these options for web apps and it's possible to implement it. Thanks in advance.

                      • Vlad replied to this.

                        Vlad

                        This is the current web app creating panel. I guess it is possible to add a check box next to Floating on top or something to Enable new windows option i guess.

                        This is what happens when you press CMD + N in Orion currently (It creates new instances of Orion) and unfortunately and reasonably this is not true for web apps by default.

                        I hope similar thing can be enabled in web apps. And it will be useful for certain document editing web apps and so (Eg: Google Docs, Notion)
                        Because currently you can only work with one document and if you want to open another one you have to backtrack and open it and loose the current one or open the other one in orion or any other browser (which i guess defeats the whole purpose of this being a separate app and all)

                        So If a similar implementation of New windows was to be given as an option to web apps some web apps would certainly benefit from it. At least that's what I think. Hope I explained it well. Thanks for the reply.

                            @"thuvasooriya"#p29149I understand thanks. In principle we do not want to add browser features to web apps to prevent them from turning into full browsers (and we would get there if we would start adding 'just one more thing').

                            Perhaps you are looking to run multiple instanced of the web app, and maybe this should be handled at the system level.
                            https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/run-multiple-copies-app-mac/