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The "split view" functionality in is really nice! Read headlines from a single tab. After all the #AI rubbish, finally something good comes from #firefox development 🤗 (lemmy.nz)

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The "split view" functionality in @firefox is really nice! Read headlines from a single tab. After all the #AI rubbish, finally something good comes from #firefox development 🤗

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what's the advantage over just using two windows?

[–] ToaofTime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

More horizontal space while using vertical tab bar, only a single window when cycling through alt-tab, saves both tabs if you use saved sessions (vs two windows you would lose one of the tabs when closing both)

Also not having to adjust the borders manually.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those are actually downsides to me; I want to see the name per window and have full control. Unless I'm constantly using the same specific pair frequently, this would only mess up my workflow more.

not having to adjust the borders manually.

Surely you know about Win+/Super+Arrow, right?

[–] ToaofTime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

A hotkey is still additional manual alignment. I'm glad you have a flow that works, just as this feature improves mine.

[–] jello@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago

I thought the same thing until I used it, but now I get it. It's just nicer and more fluid to use

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago

Well, and after vertical tabs, tab groups, a free browser-wide VPN, ...

[–] JerryMerweather@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I hope they continue on focusing on fixing bugs too.

There is no point of adding features if the issues arent getting fixed.
But its much better than AI for sure.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Looks like there's a lot happening there too: https://infosec.exchange/@tomrittervg/116443139069130293

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago

yeah they used ai to fix a bunch of stuff

[–] vogi@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It really is been using it more than I anticipated.
I did actually added an exception for on device AI for the newly added about:translations as I don't see much of a problem with that.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Translations existed before the ~2023 AI craze, and while they're a cousin of the other stuff Mozilla has been doing, they're a distant cousin.

[–] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a really cool development! However, no button to "open link in split tab"? This could probably be an addon.

I'll be using this a bunch, thank you.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Nightly, so it might not be in release yet, but I have "Open Link in Split View" in my context menu when I right-click a link, so if it's not there yet, it's coming.

[–] monomon@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Hm now i have it, too.