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Vivaldi (and Edge) have this absolutely wonderful capability that allows me to split one tab into two or four at the same time.

At least in my workflow it's quite useful because I usually work with several tabs open and sometimes two related tabs (say, a document I'm reading and a document I'm replying to according to that one), I know that I can perfectly have another Firefox window open next to it and fulfill that function, but I wish I could do it directly from Firefox.

Does anyone know of an add-on that fulfills this purpose? Or maybe a dev who is developing it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was looking into this because of the whole WEI thing and Vivaldi being part of the Chromium ecosystem—I found a tiling plugin for the 'fox, but visually, it's not seamless like Vivaldi's.

Each tile is basically its own window complete with the tab space up top.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

FYI, Vivaldi posted their opposition to WEI here. If website operators use the scheme then browsers not implementing it are at a loss. Hopefully every chrome based project (including edge!) is able to remove it so Chrome official is the only one where it works. Starving the approach of participants sounds like the only easy to make it fail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

While that's definitely where we need to aim, chrome has such a massive market share even if all the non chrome browsers band together it might not be enough.

I can see banks and employment sites implementing these things and forcing the hand of the smaller browser. I hope I'm wrong, but that seems likely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you mention edge? Why would microsoft remove it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Edge uses pieces of Chrome, so it will probably have the same WEI stuff unless MS chooses to remove it. Given the goals of MS probably aligns more closely with Google than other browser makers I think it's likely edge will have WEI.