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Ask HN: Is there a browser that opens more sites on 1 page next to each other?

2 points by trizoza ↗ HN
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.

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hitpointdrew
Why 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/

trizoza
Thanks 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
Why 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
Yeah, that was the initial thought. But one of the sites is Facebook and they block IFrames :/
sargstuff
Guess 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.
DemocracyFTW2
You 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
Oh, 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
I'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.