Okay but I can just drag a tab out into a second window and have the same result. What's the point?
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Way better handling, less wasted space, etc. at least if they implement it like it was in opera... no clue, 25 years ago. For whatever reason they dropped it around version 7, but it was great.
Unless you are using a tiling window manager it is not same thing. You have to spend time dragging and resizing the two windows with your mouse in order to put them the way you want. And while it may not sound like a lot if you are doing it pretty often it adds up.
If on the other hand you can open a link in split view with the current tab just as effortlessly as middle clicking to open on a new tab, I can see myself doing it all the time. This is one of the reasons I was testing out the Zen browser recently, which is a Firefox fork that has the feature.
It would be more space efficient without needing to resize any windows. Especially useful if you already have half your screen covered with another program. I can see myself using this a lot.
But now you have some tabs in one window and one tab in the other
We're all infuriated by recent mozilla doings regarding firefox, but come on, people, this time it's a nice feature added.
isn't this the role of the window manager/OS? not sure why a browser needs to have it...
i guess it could be useful on android where the OS doesn't provide necessary features but not really on normal desktops..
the Zen implementation allows me to just drag one tab on top of the other, which is much more user friendly