Chrome Dual View Lets You Split Chrome In Two

@Dave Lindsay: If you're running beta builds of Chrome, Windows 7 isn't even required, Chrome has it built in.

telepheedian

Nice...
I started using Chrome couple of days ago, and I'm only two steps from switching from Firefox to it now:
1. XMarks
2. A way to save all tabs to bookmarks at once

Other than that, it's so much lighter than Firefox in my personal experience.... and I didn't even use too many addons....

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Last time I tried this (1.5 moths ago) it messed up Chrome bad - so had to uninstall. Great idea though...

I wonder what features from Opera will be copied next by it's rivals. Admittidly a mdi interface isn't new but the fact it's missing from other browsers is just dumb.

decays

Maxthon. It's a browser that can split windows, drag and drop to open pages, and soo much more! I use it and Flock all the time. And, it will open Gmail and Google Reader side-by-side!

techjoe

@Wayne Elgin: This makes in it 1 window, and to do the side by side thing in Chrome, your browser cannot be maximized, since you need to drag the tab outside the window for those pages to come up.

Orisue

@UnMicD: Ahh, that may be beneficial then, due to a slight decrease in overhead.

Anyone want to verify? :D

Sean Masters

I don't understand why you would use a bookmarklet to do this when Chrome includes the functionality to do side-by-side tabs for two months. Am I missing something?

It works in Firefox 3 on the Mac too.

Andy Gherna

@Sean Masters: Looks to me like it's all in one tab with this technique. Which I would expect means it's two pages in a single process.

@Dave Lindsay: It can be convenient because you don't have to open a new window or re-size the current window you have open, plus it is all contained in 1 tab, so they are always aligned and you don't have to worry about having the right two windows up if you are comparing the two.

spcomputing

Sadly, this does not work with Gmail and Google Reader side by side; Gmail takes over the whole window.

spcomputing

@Phoshi:
Confirmed that this also works perfectly in Safari and Opera, so yeah, pretty much anything.

Alex Price

@Domthedude001: Well, those crazy chrome JS things did only seem to work in Chrome at acceptable speed, but this does just seem to be frames and JS.

The Opera browser, being a true MDI interface, lets you tile as many tabs as you want, vertically or horizontally (or in cascade).
There are also additional buttons that let you split a single web page in two, so that you can look at two different parts of a webpage at the same time.

Wandering electrons

@Phoshi: I'm also wondering why it says "Chrome only:" when it should work in any frame/JS-enabled browser o.O

Domthedude001

I don't get it.. Why not just put two windows side by side? Easy in Win7, and even in Vista and XP you can ctrl+click on two windows on the taskbar to select them both then rightclick->Show Windows Side by Side.

Dave Lindsay

Or you can just open two instances of Chrome.

Because Chrome instantiates itself every time you open a new tab (i.e. you can have 5 tabs open in Chrome and, sure enough, you will have 5 entries of "chrome.exe" in Windows Task Manager), it doesn't make any difference whether you have one copy with two tabs open or two copies with one tab each open.

Sean Masters

@Phoshi: Tested this in FF3/IE7 and in works in both. Very nifty.

arod

I think i'm gonna stay with Win7 snap feature. Works great for me.

Isaacquartz

I just use AeroSnap, which I think I learned about here. Its great because it works across almost all applications.

That's pretty awesome.

Being a bookmarklet, it also seemed to work just fine in FF(?)

@DarkChaosx: thats odd, ive used it on the beta and now on the RC and it works beautifully without issue

grimdeath9740

@Sean Masters: That would be the case, yeah. It more or less clobbers whatever content is currently in your tab with a new frameset. Just standard html.

It's a novel thought (albeit clumsy and inflexible), but branding this as a Chrome-specific bookmarklet is a little silly.

Seems interesting and kinda useful I guess. Doesn't matter to me because I can't use Chrome anyway. I'm on Windows 7 and Chrome doesn't want to acknowledge my internet connection. >:(

Oh ouch. I opened that link in Firefox and forgot about it for 20 mins. Then I realized that Firefox had my cpu pegged at 50-70% constantly. It immediately went back to normal after closing the tab.

So be careful. I don't know if the same thing will happen in Chrome. But it does not work well in Firefox.

Neat!

jimmyrizzo

Does anyone know how to get this working with a Chrome application shortcut?

that's awesome! I never knew that trick

SunitiRagnarok

Maxthon already has a built in version of this that works much better. You can move tabs between the two panes and everything.

RosaMalkoth

Did I hear someone say 'Maxthon'?

ReformatMe

@Phoshi: Bang up job on the field testing. I've updated the post accordingly!

You could also use twinsplay ([www.twinsplay.com]).

It enables splitting the screen (with greatly positioned hotkeys), and it also manages your window sessions. It's like Firefox tabs for the desktop.

or just pull the tab off and creat 2 chrome windows, and use Windows 7's Win+left arrow and Win+right arrow

Sam Scott Given

@googeling:

Eh... the whole code got truncated...

Try this:

8-in-1

cols="33.3%,33.3%,33.3%,33.3%">

Save as 'something.html'. Drag and drop into toolbar. This one has no url prompt though. Edit as desired.

@Dave Lindsay: I, too, was unaware of this built-in Windows feature. Very useful, thank you!

shwnchr