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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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                                    Merged 6 posts from Split screen please.
                                      12 days later

                                      I think the tag is a mistake, makes most sense on desktop, and possibly on ipad
                                      laiz

                                        23 days later

                                        What is the point of this feature.
                                        The OS does this natively. Implementing inside a browser doesn't add anything infact, now you have a glitchy fullscreen.