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Vlad Sorry, you didn't ask me, but I will also reply to this:
It's because in Arc you can have a tab with multiple splits, and you can go back and forth between this tab with splits and another full screen tab, if you have two windows side by side, you have to have a separate window for fullscreen tabs, or to resize the window all the time, and window management on mac isn't that great. Also opening a tab in a split view in arc is just option+enter, super easy, wish more browsers had this feature.

    I've been trying not to get frustrated with the lack of response and support in this thread, but I am, so I apologize in advance.

    Vlad Why use tabs when we could just use new windows? Why implement ad-blocking when users can just close their eyes? Why use a browser at all when curl exists?

    A browser having features is nice, that's why we're here and trying to improve the Orion browser with you. If this is a feature you don't want to or can't implement, then that's fine, but just say that instead of dragging this highly-voted issue along for 3 years with no actual progress. Asking questions like this is just insulting to your users who care enough to try and help you provide a better product.

    I'm a software engineer myself and know what it's like working on public projects, so I'm sorry to show my frustration like this. I do appreciate all the effort that has gone into this project, but I've noticed a pattern in this thread and several other popular issues that brought me to this point. I'll also note that this no longer affects me personally - I've stopped using Orion because I would rather support a project that actually takes community feedback seriously. So if you want to ignore this feedback as well, that's also fine. Thank you for your work on the project and apologies again for my tone, but I hope you can understand my frustration as a user who once cared about this project.

        Vlad

        Thanks for asking! I will pretty much repeat what @dderg said:
        1) Fullscreen window management in MacOs is (unfortunately) still a bit cumbersome.
        2) The use case for having two tabs side by side, however, is quite often short-case and should be quick: like opening a search result on the side while still keeping an eye on the other search results.
        3) For scenarios that are "longer-term" (like browsing for information in one tab and filling it into forms in another tab), being able to go back and forth between split tabs and other tabs (or other splits) would be great.
        4) MacOs allows only two apps sharing full screen, while on big screen more tab splits can be useful.

            otaway No worries, I interpret frustration as passion. We are tackling some pretty large issues in the current RC release, including compact tabs and hopefully this will come to fruition soon.

            I know this does not mean much but this may be new information for some: For comparison Arc has a 40+ people team, working on top of Chromium which provides a lot browser app by default. Orion is a 3 person team building a browser from scratch (no equivalent of Chromium for WebKit, every button, every menu item, every interaction, every setting has to be coded from scratch). So we have a two orders of magnitude worse relative position, (and did I mention this browser is funded only by users - about 780 of them at this point) - we are trying to compensate all this mostly with passion. Just to align expectations.

                I only brought up Arc as a good example splits implementation, as a reference. To elaborate on one of earlier messages, I think good comparison are splits in vim and splits in any other text editor, for example vscode. Splits in vim are the main reason I cannot use any other text editor or IDE.

                  a month later

                  Vlad I just want to comment after reading your response. I did not know that Orion had such a small team and a relatively small user base. To think... despite any shortcomings, I always considered Orion as robust and usable as any of the other browsers. The idea that its resources are constrained is not apparent whatsoever to the average user. Three people? That is incredible.

                  While I don't have split screen like I asked, I am constantly impressed by so many other elements of the browser. Hats off to you.

                      2 months later

                      I agree with @agent42b that this amazing. I am using Orion as my default browser and loving it. Literally the only thing I could think of that could be better was the split view (hence me replying here). Amazing team!!! Kudos to @Vlad and the team!!!

                        a month later

                        Would like to second this request.

                        Orion is a great browser and I've moved to it as my default, but I've kept Arc purely for this feature and would love to see this implemented at some point.

                        a month later

                        I'm ditching Arc because of it's incredible power consumption and my M1 Air battery can't handle it anymore. I hate that I've to carry charger with me when I'm going somewhere. So i'm trying out Orion. I would love to see split view as it's one of major features in Arc. How's going with this feature?

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                          a month later

                          A sidebar for a website, where you can add any website, including chatgpt, poe, perplexity, etc, but also basically any website - some thing like new AI Sidebar in firefox.

                          I would use it to open chatgpt or perplexity side by side with my current tab to get context of open website and to quickly get summary, or any question from AI chat. This could be used to open other apps, like youtube, redit or twitter, etc.

                            Merged 1 post from Sidebar with web apps.

                              RihardsVeters I know that this seems pretty identical to split view, but I wouldn't call it that way - this is separate feature. This is sticked to sidebar and can be opened at any time, next to any other tab or even split view. So that's separate "browser" tab, just in sidebar.

                                  2 months later

                                  this app is almost perfect, one more thing i would like to have is split screen. currently Orion supports split screen with another application but however doesn’t support splitscreening two orion tabs.

                                    kumgutter69
                                    Does any other browser do this? How does the user activate the feature? What does it look like?

                                        Is this supposed to be for mac, or for ipad? iphones don't have split screen

                                          laiz Edge does it and implements it perfectly. Very useful feature. I would like it as well

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