Just throwing my 2p in here. I used to have this on Arc before moving to Orion full time and it's one of the features that I miss most. If this were native, I'd use it all the time. I know, just one more person doesn't make it any less niche, but just wanted to add my support for this idea.
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Side by Side Tabs (Split View)
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We made progress with this. Sharing the UX following HIG. The assumption here is that two split views is enough.
We are also exploring a special case when navigating froms earch results, we would show the search icon in the address bar and clicking it will show previous search results, allowing for easilly loading search results in the main view.
These are incredibly demanding from a development perspective and require time, and for now our focus is on fixing bugs and extension support so we hope we can get closer to this by the 127 release.
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Hi I love the orion browser and I would like to help out in development by suggesting new features. One of those being tile view a better way to manage multiple tabs used at the same time.
Details:
Please visit the site below for all the details on tile view as well as other cool features. Any question? Either contact me through here or through the contact information provided on the website.
Website:
https://abetterorion.framer.ai
instead, could you make a detaield writeup of every feature you'd like to have implemented, one feature per post?
Sure, sorry
Tile View
An improved method for managing numerous tabs simultaneously.
How it works
Essentially, this functionality enables users to drag tabs directly from the menu bar and, by pressing Shift, snap them into a grid-like arrangement. Meaning that you would do the same thing as creating a new orion window by dragging a tab, in addition to holding shift. (Photo: https://ibb.co/tJCsBDv, Photo 2: https://ibb.co/PCHqgpz)
Detect
To help a user utilise this feature more effectivly: When a user drags a tap holding shift tiles will automatically resize, giving the user a preview, simular to multitasking in IPadOS. (Photo: https://ibb.co/Y7Fwhm9, https://ibb.co/cCQPxFp, https://ibb.co/Y7Fwhm9)
Menubar buttons
To accommodate for such a feature the menu bar will always adjust to the window currently hovered, although a user can lock the menubar to a certain tile if they so wish. In addition to the lock button two other buttons will automatically appear on a selected tab in a tile view.
Edit Mode: Move and Resize all Tiles in a tile view
Maximise: This Button removes this window (or potentially all windows) from the tile view and brings them back to fullscreen
-All features should have keyboard shortcuts-
I hope this is more helpful. 
Paul_Snowy Thank you for very detailed proposal.
Note this is a very serious UI undertaking, and I am not sure how any 'buyers' are out there for this (seems to be a feature for people with very large monitors only). If/when this gets 20+ upvotes, I am glad to engage in further discussion.
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Merged 5 posts from Tile View and much more.
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Hi, has there been any update on this that you could share, as we're well past 20 upvotes now?
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One suggestion here I'd like to mention is the ability to have multiple windows for the named window.
Being able to have multiple windows side by side (or 2x2) is critical to many workflows.
From an organization POV, each named window to organize a partcular topic. It would act like a workspace for the topic.
Example:
If working on a coding project, I might want 1 entry to be the documentation page, One to be the github source, and another to be some research associated with the feature I'm building.
From a workflow perspective, I would want everything to be organized to the same named window, but I would want the documentation window sit side by side the github window.
Details:
Assume there is a named windows called "Database" with tabs "github, google doc, and hackernews" with the github tab currently selected.
- A user could enter a keyboard shortcut and create duplicate window for "Database". that selects the next tab in the list (google doc)
- User could also click a link with a keyboard modifier (shift, option) and open a new link in "Database" but in a new window view
The second one ask is low priority but the first would be really useful
perhaps https://orionfeedback.org/d/80-side-by-side-tabs-split-view/11 could solve your issue?
Merged 2 posts from [Feature Request] - Multiple Instance of Named windows..
Still love the idea...so excited that it is finally happening. the way i want it to work is mentioned on https://abetterorion.framer.ai or in my other post. This could be the thing that brings me back to Orion...
(I have recently switched to arc and safari
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Paul_Snowy As far as I know Safari does not have this feature. What does it have?
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It doesn’t which is why I’ve also started to use arc though I am really fed up with it not working with my password manager.
I am currently testing out basically every browser I am interested in. Here are my thoughts if any of you are interested.
https://www.craft.me/s/oL1sFRgXoodlzk
Note I haven’t updated it for around a month, so certain things have happened since… I will probably update it within the next few weeks.
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Partially. From a functionality POV, I tile other apps (Pages, Slack, Obsidian, etc) in split screen view next to Orion. Tiling within orion would be more limiting (especially doing quadrants
Also It seems to be way more engineering effort to do tab tiling within Orion then to just let other tools handle tiling (betttertouchtool, swish, etc)
The bigger fix for me would simply be to have multiple instances of a named window (I treat them more like workspaces then just named windows). Ironically, a bug actually triggered the functionality I wanted about 3 versions ago, but it stopped working
I think this is a seperate (simpler) ask then tab tiling.
I'd rather have tab tiling for the browser handled by the browser. Arc does a really great job at this. I understand there's more engineering overhead, but from a user perspective they do not want more apps to do the same things if it can be achieved within the app itself. Simplier is better. This also allows for different keystrokes to trigger different ways of tiling. Ie. holding option such that it opens in the window, etc.
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3 months later
This feature allows the user to easily load two websites side by side, which can be highly effective for needing two separate tabs on the screen for various purposes. Effectively, it creates the same benefits of having two browser windows open and utilizing MacOS's split screen feature.
I have often used this feature during two instances:
While on a video conference call (such as Google Meet). Half of my screen is the google meet tab, while the other tab is a notes document where I am taking meeting notes.
While performing research. The first tab is my research notes document, while the other tab is for searching and reading links from search engines.
I have been using this feature on the Arc browser and Edge browser for the past year, and I can confidently say that it's one of the defining features that keep bringing me back to these browsers. The best execution I have seen is in the Arc browser, where you can Option + Click on any link and automatically open it in the screen split screen mode alongside the currently open window.
I would love for Orion to adopt this idea.