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Feature Request - Tile Tabs / Tiling Tabs feature from Vivaldi browser
Came across Vivaldi browser and it has some lovely features that I think would benefit Edge, some of these features have already been mentioned/requested however, I am a great fan of the new Edge running the Canary build so would really like this feature coming over.
Tab Tiling - allows you to view web pages/sites to be viewed side by side by selecting two or more/multiple tabs together which you can tile vertically/horizontally/grid.
This feature is very useful when comparing/reviewing websites/forums etc or just browsing.
Example attached as a screenshot..
Thoughts?
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- im not sure why hotcake is being so aggressive about this. I understand maybe hes passionate.
I currently use vivaldi as my daily driver, specifically for the way it handles vertical tabs in the side bar, and for tab tiling.
Opening tabs as windows as an alternative to tab tiling is not a great point at all.
In vivaldi I often just command+select two tabs right click and choose Tile. I can then reference both pages as needed. Once done, i right click and un-tile. Besides the fact that doing it this way uses less UI Chrome, its also MUCH faster than breaking a tab out in to a new window, snapping it, and when done, putting that tab back in to the original main window, and back in to its tab group.
I'll also add that not everyone that uses Edge has WINDOWS. Window snapping on mac is only possible with 3rd party software. Otherwise on mac, we utilize full screen apps that can go side by side.
Bottom line, a lof of people would benefit from tab tiling.
When do i use it? When invoicing clients. When ordering products. When creating quotes. It helps. Raid22, I must admit that I also have the latest version of vivaldi snapshot installed on my windows 10 pro version computer's, at least for me due to the fact that I love technology I like keeping up with their efforts to see how that browser is evolving. No offense to anyone in here, but that's what makes things interesting when you can get different points of view. I also use firefox nightly & brave nightly so I can get a real feel for what's going on development wise with all of them. Of course this comment is strictly my own thoughts.
David
Hi,
this feature in Vivaldi is truly useless, they are trying to reinvent the wheel.Windows already has snapping features; has had it for more than a decade at least.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/snap-your-windows-885a9b1e-a983-a3b1-16cd-c531795e6241
if you want more professional snapping, custom grids with more customizations, there is PowerToys FancyZones:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzonesYou want to snap 2 tabs next to each other for review etc.? drag them to the sides.
you want to snap 4 tabs in a a grid? again use the built-in feature in Windows 10 to do this.
snap 4 tabs or windows to the top-right, top-left, bottom-right, bottom-left.
you want to do it more professionally to more tabs and have more available customizations? use PowerToys FancyZones.
not only you can do this to Edge tabs, you can do this to any browser's tabs, even go beyond that, do it to almost any program!
- I switch to Vivaldi for this very reason. It is immensly useful, when you have vertical screens. Agreed... It's definetly a nicety, rather than a needety. But I really like it. If Edge had this feature, I wouldn't think twice about using it as my main browser.
- I'm still waiting for this feature. Having tabs tiled in one tab is so useful. I want to compare information between websites (I work with websites, hosting, plugins, etc., in my own businesses) every work day and this would be indispensable in Edge.
Hello.
Appreciate your thoughts & I understand your point however, the products you suggested, in my opinion are slightly different.
I use both these mentioned products/features already (Window snapping & FancyZones) in my existing workflow setup however, for different purpose. To me these "functions" are window management and not tab management.
FancyZone is very useful when you want to window manage/workflow on a big screen, in my case, I have a 34" inch ultrawide monitor and this works perfectly with different windows & applications.
But what happens when I am researching/technical guides etc in my field & comparing notes - do i want to open multiple sessions of Edge or any browser?? not really... why would i want to create more resource hog & overhead? Why do i want to drag and drop two tabs which opens another instance/container into another zone, when i can select the 2 tabs and combine in the same window application?
With tabs being tiled, two or more websites are contained in the same window & the same instance of the browser. So when i minimise the container window, they all minimise, when I close the browser instance they all close. On the other hand, each window or instance has to be manually controlled.
Also when using FancyZone, because the windows/applications is a new instance, seamless scroll, transition etc are not available. You have to actively click the window to enable focus & the function for that window. With Tiled tabs, this is seamless and all the required controls/functions of the web page are activated on mouse over focus.
FanzyZone when used on smaller devices such as a 13inch laptop/Surface device is pointless yet the tiled tabbing can still be used.
Obviously these are requirement based and I found the function of tiling tab in the same browser window container very very useful.
Windows and tabs are no different, they show the same content, they have the same toolbar.
the content is not important, technical, youtube videos or memes on the internet.
more resources? of course not. you normally view 2 pages on 2 different tabs, when you snap them to other parts of the screen, you are still consuming the same amount of resources.
Vivaldi has no magic to show you content of 2 websites without actually consuming the same amount of resources required if you had to open them in 2 tabs. websites can't magically be merged, what happens to their cookies, the security, the isolation that needs to exist between websites so they don't see each other's data!?
Vivaldi still has to render all the Javascript, CSS, HTML and show the web page to you.
the only way that you would consume less amount of resources would be if Vivaldi rendered those web content server side and then stream the results to you in the form of video, that's it.
it's very rare that user would want to scroll 2 pages at the same time. maybe only for comparison purposes. rare use cases like this better come as an extension, and not be included in the browser for everyone to occupy unnecessary space for the majority of users.
I've tried Vivaldi myself, just like Opera is a bloated browser.
