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Reviews for Tile Tabs WE

Tile Tabs WE by DW-dev

2.9 Stars out of 5
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  • by usuariolegitimo, 7 years ago
    It's a very bad version of the original Tile Tabs. Used to love that addon.
  • by Firefox user 12337774, 7 years ago
    Not anymore but it's not DW-dev fault. It's due to change in Firefox and impossibility to keep the same behavior than before.
  • by Tharkon, 7 years ago
    All it does is create two windows (on a different screen than the one I was working on btw) with one tab each and puts them side by side. I can do that without an add-on. I will continue using the old version until it gets discontinued and then I guess I'll have to do without. This is not a replacement for me. Considering how many plug-ins are affected I might opt to just not move to Firefox 57.
  • by Firefox user 12833352, 7 years ago
    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.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Tile Tabs WE has the same basic objective as the original Tile Tabs - to display multiple web pages in a tiled layout - and it does that!

    Tile Tabs WE works differently to the original Tile Tabs, because using the WebExtensions API's, it is not possible to display multiple pages simultaneously within the same browser window.
  • by Ben, 7 years ago
    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).
  • by EV88, 7 years ago
    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.
  • by Firefox user 13181669, 7 years ago
    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.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Tile Tabs WE has the same basic objective as the original Tile Tabs, which is to display multiple web pages in a tiled layout.

    Tile Tabs WE works differently to the original Tile Tabs, because using the WebExtensions API's, it is not possible to display multiple pages simultaneously within the same browser window.

    It is hoped that it will soon be possible to release a new add-on, which will be similar to the original Tile Tabs, with all of the pages in the layout tiled within the same window. There is already a working prototype of this add-on, but it cannot be released until Mozilla make some changes to the core code of Firefox.