It would be very useful for Brave to implement the “tile tabs” function, as it is done in Vivaldi, where you select tabs and they can be locked and auto-tiled.
They appear to be the only browser that does this cleanly (and without an extension). Once you use it, you will understand why it’s helpful, where you want to treat two or more web app as a “single pane”.
Please note, this is not the same at the TileTabs extension in FireFox or Chrome.
As someone who has never used vivaldi I sugest opening 2 windows and pinning them on both sides of the screen for multitasking. That’s what I’ve been doing for my whole life with opera and firefox.
Vivaldi’s is nice because it allows you to resize the tab tiles very easily in all 4 directions, and you can add a pretty large number of tabs to your configuration. It also keeps one address bar that operates for all tabs (if you click on a different tile you will see the link change to the appropriate URL). It makes multitasking really easy.
There is huge value in having it as part of the browser and not needing to alt-tab to control another window. You could imagine creating an extension to control this tiled tab from within your main browsing window, dual scrolling becomes possible in this way, which may accelerate some workflows.
I second that! It would be nice to be able to switch between different tab views with a single click in one window. Currently extensions make the tiling but since each tab is in a different window, they might be at the back of another window.
I do a lot of researching old folk songs online as a part of my album making process, and being able to group and tile tabs a la Vivaldi would be a huge boon to that process. While just resizing different browser windows is an option, having a better visual on what tabs are open and where they are while being able to take notes without changing views would be super helpful.
I’ll just throw my +1 behind this because I love the tab tiling feature from Vivaldi. It is so much better than opening multiple windows because you can minimize that amount of wasted space the tab and toolbar takes having nicely setup tiling tabs.
agree!!! This is one of the best features I’m still concerned if not go back to vivaldi, but strongly wouldn’t want to do that. Brave is such a fast and reliable browser, I hope you guys can implement this feature please
On desktop i’ve pretty much transitioned completely to Vivaldi. Such a useful feature. Perhaps a spam session on other forms of socials is needed to get this to be considered?
It’s frustrating because I much prefer Brave for many features it has over other browsers, but as I’ve grown to require large numbers of directly accessible tabs (even if inactive), I’ve long since reached the physical limits of what the tabbed interface is capable of on every desktop platform I use daily across 3 machines and 1 VDI. After having created 3 Bookmark Groups today in order to close enough tabs to allow the remaining to fit on-screen, I have finally reached the level of inconvenience that I cannot continue to wait indefinitely for a feature that may never come. Long ago, I attempted to revamp my workflow by relying solely on the Brave tab search, and while a wonderfully implemented feature, it is quite frankly a big step in the ditch for my workflow, so I’m back to trying to find a solution to save me the pain of switching away from Brave.
I tested the split window feature available in Nightly, and while I applaud the Brave team on the new very cool feature, it does not replace the need for even a simplified stacked tab feature. The stacked tabbed feature in Vivaldi is quite comprehensive, but dare I say over-complicated ? I suspect for 90% of users, even a simplified rudimentary tab stacking feature where a user can initiate a stack from a tab with a simple “start stack” and “end stack” button where every new tab created while within the context of this “parent” tab is added to the stack would be sufficient, along with a simple tab group menu list that populates on-mouse over is all that is absolutely required. The comprehensive reordering, etc, while nice , and should ultimately be implemented, is not critical like the basic tab stacking feature currently is. Please reconsider greatly prioritizing this enhancement request from users from where it currently is, as I fear the power users who invest the time and effort to re-architect their browser workflow from Brave over to another browser that supports stacked tabs (Vivaldi, for example), will not have much incentive to invest the effort to switch back if Brave eventually implements the feature in the future. Switching browsers for many of us is a huge undertaking.
I am now evaluating Vivaldi again and have to say that tab stacks is a bit of a killer feature that unfortunately looks like is going to force me to switch unless there is some defined timeline for this feature added to the roadmap. Switching away from Brave will be a huge PITA and time investment since I’ve unified my browser use across all devices and sync chains in Brave for over a year now, but the tab stacking efficiency improvement is at a point where it will tip the scales to invest that effort to switch.
This thread may have less than 50 upvotes atm, but from my own anecdotal experience, I have revisited this page 3 times in the last 6 months, hoping for an update, and decided today to give up and find an alternate solution. It was only after starting my evaluation today of Vivaldi (again) that I decided to create a Brave Community account in order to make one last plea here for the feature. I suspect the type of user who prioritizes their workflow efficiency is also the type of user that doesn’t bother taking the time creating an account for a site they never intend to use more than once and doesn’t believe it will be fruitful to effect the change they need, yet here I am making one last ditch effort. Because of this, I am confident that the “UPVOTE” count of this thread greatly under-represents the number of users switching in silent desperation away from Brave due to the lack of this feature.
Thank you Brave Browser team for coming to my TED Talk