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Ask HN: Is there a browser that opens more sites on 1 page next to each other?
Like imagine if you had in Chrome, open 3 websites all taking 1/3 of the width and full height (like mobile view) - I can't see to find anything like that. Even extension would be great.
- hitpointdrew 4y agoWhy would you do this in the browser? Just open separate windows and size. There are tools/utilities to help you snap to sizes. Or if your really glutton for punishment you could switch to a tiling window manager instead of a floating window manger. https://www.techjunkie.com/tiling-window-managers/ https://www.techjunkie.com/tiling-window-managers/
- trizoza 4y agoThanks for the tip. I found browser called Arc that can do it. The goal was to have one screen that's the 'distraction screen' have there FB, TW, LI, IG and just refresh them all every now and then, all at once. To avoid the social media loop that I sometimes get into.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoWhy not create an HTML file with 4 side-by-side IFRAMEs, each containing one of these 4 sites? That sounds like it would achieve both your aims (including refreshing them all at once). (Unless one or more of the sites doesn't like being in an IFRAME)
- trizoza 4y agoYeah, that was the initial thought. But one of the sites is Facebook and they block IFrames :/
- sargstuff 4y agoGuess shell scripting is bit old school of a solution. * Pass 3 url websites to shell script. * In shell script, compute 1/3 window size & coordinate for each url. * In script, open a different window with computed window coordinates/size (aka 3 side by side windows), where each window is running a web browser using one of urls passed on command line.
- sargstuff 4y agoOr create page with url pop-up windows, each 1/3 screen size : https://www.thesitewizard.com/html-tutorial/open-links-in-new-window-or-tab.shtml https://www.thesitewizard.com/html-tutorial/open-links-in-ne...
- trizoza 4y agoThat sounds interesting, but I have no idea how to write such script. The one I found: open https://stackoverflow.com https://stackoverflow.com Just opens it in the browser.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoI achieve the same using the following features of i3 on Linux: - tiling window manager - virtual desktops
- trizoza 4y agoI might try that one day, but I'm just a regular Mac user atm.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoMacOS supports virtual desktops: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-in-multiple-spaces-mh14112/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-in-multiple-sp... I don't know how Spaces interact with tiling window managers like Amethyst.
- DemocracyFTW2 4y agoYou can do it in Vivaldi. Use Shift or Ctrl together with mouse click to select several tabs, then open the context menu and select "Tile selected tabs". In the browser settings, search for "tile" to find keyboard shortcuts for these actions.
- trizoza 4y agoOh, fantastic! This is it! Thanks a lot - I was happy with my solution in Arc, but they do not allow split horizontally, just vertically and looks like Vivaldi allows that. Downloading now.
- DemocracyFTW2 4y agoI've been through quite a few browsers in recent years and Vivaldi is much better than other browsers in many respects (overall looks, configurability, use of screen space, features provided). That said, I believe Opera has split tabs as well.