Side by Side Tabs (Split View)

RihardsVeters

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.

RihardsVeters

RihardsVeters Similary to programmable button scripts which shows results in orion sidebar

kumgutter69

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.

laiz

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

Marks

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

eirk

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

laiz

Marks
This suggestion is taggedMobile , does Edge do that on iOS?

dderg

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

CyrusOnOrionBroser

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.

dderg

CyrusOnOrionBroser

The idea is that one tab can have multiple splits, so you could switch between groups of pages open in splits in a single click. OS would require you to change tabs separately in each open window. Its like splits in vim and splits in any other editor

paulrudy

dderg I hadn't realized that's part of the proposal. That would be pretty cool.

CyrusOnOrionBroser

dderg Maybe its limited to my case, but I have never come across this requirement for my workflow.
To replecate that above senario, I would use Stage Manager. Does the same thing again , natively.
But yeah, I see your point.

calm-tea6189

Not sure how to articulate the importance of the difference, but I was surprised to discover just how much I used and liked using the split view approach in Arc Browser, which is where I first saw it. It's the one thing that reliably makes me happy to switch back to Arc. (Its also prettier but that is very low on my priority list right now 🙂 )

Part of it is the ability to mix and match layouts within the browser environment. If I want to have multiple windows in Stage Manager to accomplish the same layout, it takes more effort to set up and adds overhead when switching (I need to switch multiple window focus's when changing apps), and it just generally doesn't work as well.

olliba0828

I hope Orion adds a feature like split view in Arc, as that is one of Arc's main features. I use Split view with the browser a lot, but drag and dropping and clicking to make a split view is too much of burden to do.

Yannick

For the moment, we don't plan to implement this feature. We think the Focus mode (⇧⌘F) allows for even more flexibility, look at this example:

What do you guys think?

agent42b

Yannick The screenshot looks very promising as far as the end result. However, how easy is it to arrange windows like that, either from existing open tabs or clicking a new link?

Yannick

agent42b
I'm glad you like it 🙂
I did it very quickly with the current version of Orion, I'll show you:

I open a new window
I switch to Focus mode
There you go 🙂

And since they are normal browser windows, they can be easily rearranged with a window manager.

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