Ask HN: Is there a dual pane version of HN?

4 points by DiabloD3 15y ago ↗ HN

I find HN to be the most invaluable website I visit on a daily basis, however interacting with HN usually involves multiple tabs and flipping back and forth if I want to comment on a URL/story.

Has anyone produced a dual pane version of HN that puts HN on the left, and the clicked URL on the right?

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ra 15y ago ↗

There is a Chrome plugin that does this: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plldnnbdlbgbiknj...

DiabloD3 15y ago ↗

Ahh, very interesting, but I'm not on Chrome. There doesn't seem to be a similar plugin for Firefox.

Obscure 15y ago ↗

You might want to give this one a try:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fox-splitter-...

[dead] DiabloD3 15y ago ↗

Also, it'd be nice to be able to queue stories I want to read, so I could single click through both item pages and the URL itself (left/right, queue at top in a third pane?) to optimize HN use flow on the days that HN has a lot of interesting things.

Although, I'll admit, that is really upping the complexity of HN.

nsenifty 15y ago ↗

This is super crude, but something I just hacked up-

https://gist.github.com/911459

dstein 15y ago ↗

I've always kind of wished web browsers had a built-in split-pane feature so I can keep one tab always open within the window.