Hello DW-Dev,

I suggest you rename this addon to Tile Windows, the current name does not cover its functionality.

I did see your responses to the other reviews, a few things are unclear to me, can you please comment ?

Is my understanding correct that Mozilla will remove functionality from its API in FF57, that breaks the current Tile Tab addon , without having alternatives in the WE API ?

If so, should you, with support of its 62K users, make more noise to prevent that from happening ?

What is the plan , will the Tile Tab functionality eventually flow into this Tile Tab WE addon , or will the original Tile Tab addon eventually start working again ?

Needless to say, I very much like the current Tile Tab addon, so let us know through the popup window how we can help to keep it alive. Not sure if you can override the "do not show again" flag, to reach all of us ;-)

Thanks !
Rene

All this does is break out each tab in separate windows in a tiled pattern, rather than actually tiling the tabs inside the main window.

Obviously I'll adjust my rating if there's something I'm missing, but this extension seems to just open windows and put them next to each other instead of partitioning the content frame.

This extension accomplishes the basic task of showing two pages side-by-side. But you have no real control over which tabs get split (it's always the current tab plus the next tab), you cannot easily switch which tab is shown in the tile after you launch the tiled view, and worst of all if you have multiple monitors, there is no way to control which monitor the split view pops up on (it's always the primary monitor even if Firefox is on the secondary monitor).

This is unfortunately not a decent replacement for the Tile Tabs extension, which no longer works due to Firefox now using Web Extensions. Instead of tiling the tabs, it simply creates a new window. Not ideal.

Hopefully the upcoming add-on will be closer to the original, but I'm not holding my breath. Oh well.

В браузере включены группы вкладок и никак не получается открыть две вкладки из одной группы рядом. Всё время открываются вкладки из других групп.
Я не понимаю...

I know that WE is limiting and that's a bit sad on such a plugin. I prefer the non WE one because it actually tile tabs, not windows.

I think the WE implementation is an acceptable, but the keyboard shortcuts really need to be changeable. As it stands, this extension removes the ability to select text properly inside web forms, pages, or any other browser UI text fields. Alt+Arrow keys allow you to jump the cursor through text one word at a time, and Shift + Alt + Arrow keys is how you can select one word at a time.

With these commonly used navigation elements overridden, the browser becomes unusable for anything more involved than clicking on things. Doing development in Firefox is definitely no longer possible, which is ironic given that Tile Tabs has generally been one of my most useful dev tools ...

Edit : interestingly this behavior seems to be a little different in FF than in other browsers I've used it in. Some text fields retain the ability to navigate the cursor, so my initial review was a bit hasty. One particular area I use this feature though is with selected text on a page itself. Say I've loaded an admin UI and I want to grab some chunk of text that appears in the middle of a larger block...I can mouse over where I want to start selecting text and click once. This will place an invisible cursor of sorts, where I can then use the Shift + Arrow keys or the Shift + Alt + Arrow keys to set the marked text for copy.

This is especially useful when the text you want to select is a link, but you don't want to actually click the link for whatever reason.

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It works great with single monitor setups, allowing side-by-side viewing while using ctrl-middle mouse click to see webpages show on other tile.

Unfortunately, could not get multi monitor to work, in order to have 2 full viewing webpages open that are tiled and synced, so that I could use one for regular browsing and ctrl-middle mouse click on urls to see them appear on other monitor. Please add this feature !

It creates two new windows, side by side, instead of dividing tab space between two.

The no-WebExtensions one works great, however.

but looks strange.....

webextension really need some sort of extension