split screen for Android

[ahmad53]

Pls pls add split screen option to mozilla android it's so important for any browser!

[Jon]

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[S2000]

Firefox Nightly on Android currently supports Split Screen and "window" view.

 

 

If you don't mind daily updates (pun half-intended) and possible instability, then you could download it.
Otherwise, there's the unfortunate risk that this feature will be kept locked in Nightly for an indeterminate amount of time, along with other features such as "Pull Down to Refresh" or about:config...

[ShapeShifter499]

Does this include the ability to open a new window? I know in Chrome, Chromium, and Bromite for Android you can open a new window. This is helpful for streaming sites that allow you to open the chat in a new window, roll20, and a whole host of sites that work best when split into multiple windows rather than tabs.

[reut7]

+1 for implementing this. It's more than just split view, but the ability to run multiple windows of the same Firefox app. Ideally, this includes being able to open and move tabs in new windows. Currently, Firefox does not have this feature for Android Foldables or iPads, but Chromium-based browsers do.

[SMG]

Nightly does not have this feature, it's long overdue. Brave and Edge both have this, Brave even has a window manager. Still prefer to use Firefox.

[firedoge]

Multi Window in Android

Android Firefox needs multi window support like chromium browsers. Open any chromium browser, go to split screen view, again open the same browser, now you have two activities (not tabs) of the same browser. Firefox doesn't support this, which would be awesome if it did

[aiden_gregg]

Firefox has split-screen now, but I can't see two pages at once.  I'd also like to see this come true 🙂

[i19]

Android Multi-Instance Support

Support Android's Multi-Instance feature, allowing two Firefox instances to run simultaneously side by side in split view.

Resources: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/large-screens/multi-window-support#multi-instance

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[PipHae]

Has there been any progress on the Multi-Instance Support?

Split Screen hasn't been implemented, but Multi-Instance would be extremely useful, especially whilst utilising things such as Samsung Dex.

Currently you can create multiple windows on Chrome and other browsers, but not Firefox.

[starch4198]

Since I recently bought a folding phone I would love to see this too

[twurwa]

I would also love this. I recently migrated to firefox from chrome, but this missing feature means I have to keep chrome installed can't switch over to firefox's app fully

[farzade]

This would be especially useful on tablets and foldable phones.

[asdf3]

Yes please, I run a tablet to study and need FF because of plugins, but multi window would make things much easier. 

[kloop]

Please implement this feature, it's quite essential for anything with a larger screen space. Right now, I'm using one instance of Firefox and one of Firefox Nightly just to view two windows side by side on my tablet.

My default browser is, somewhat begrudgedly, still Vivaldi for this very reason.

On another note: Thank you all for keeping Firefox alive. Sounds a bit like hyperbole, but I consider this project to be indispensable and even essential for the Internet as a whole. For various reasons I came to somewhat despise Mozilla's upper management layer, where it seems that there are countless millions of dollars available for everything *but* Firefox proper, but I love the devs, community and all the rest - all the way down to the turtles.