Mozilla is starting to test a split view mode for Firefox, allowing you to have two pages open at the same time without two browser windows. The browser is also getting editable notes for your tabs.
Firefox Nightly, the bleeding-edge experimental branch of Firefox, has now enabled Split View by default. You can right-click a tab and select the new ‘Open in Split View’ option, then select another tab to open in the same view. Firefox also allows you to select multiple tabs (click while holding the Control/Command key), then right-click them and select ‘Open in Split View’ menu option.
Split View places two web pages in the same browser window, side by side. The toolbar, address bar, and other elements are shared, but each panel has its own scrollbar. We’ve seen this functionality in other web browsers—Microsoft Edge has a Split screen mode, and Vivaldi’s Tab Tiling can create multiple page views in a grid with no maximum limit.
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I’ve tried using the split view in Microsoft Edge a few times, but it just made multitasking more complex than having two side-by-side windows and moving tabs between them. Instead of right-clicking tabs and going through menus, I can just drag tabs from one window to the other window. Firefox’s implementation seems close to that Edge feature, but I’ll give it a try when it rolls out to my devices.
Firefox Nightly has also enabled Tab Notes, which allows you to add and view notes to specific tabs by hovering over them. That could be useful to remind yourself why you have a certain page open, especially if you don’t close your tabs for days at a time (or weeks, or months). Hopefully, the notes will be searchable in the existing tab search function.
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Split View and Tab Notes are now enabled in Firefox Nightly, which you can download from the Firefox website. They should roll out to the Beta channel once they are more polished, before finally appearing in the regular stable version of Firefox.
Source: Firefox Nightly News
