Split your tab window in Firefox

Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Firefox by Paul Flyer

One of the most irritating tasks is opening two separate browser windows to compare two web pages.

One either has to flip back and forth between windows which is inefficient at best. Or one can resize both windows so they are side by side on your desktop. This latter method becomes cumbersome if you have to minimize one of the windows or you open up another application. Restoring your resized windows takes at least two clicks instead of one.

Now there is a better way: the Split Pannel Firefox extension (yes panel is spelled with two N’s…dont ask…I dont know why)

Open a tab or window within Firefox. Select “Split” from the context menu. The current opened page will now be split. A static panel to the left and a normal tabbable window to the right. Static may not be the right word for you can still browse; the left panel simply cannot have multiple tabs. The left panel does have forward, backward, home and refresh capability. The right panel maintains all Firefox functionality .

All other extensions work soley on the right “normal” panel. They do not work on the split left panel.

This could come in handy with blogging as well. Keep you blog admin screen open to the left and the site(s) you are writing about open in tabs to the left.

Below is a screenshot showing a split window. To the left I have Google open and to the right is Yahoo.