Mastodawn

my OP is WRONG.

my statement

it is not available in #Friendica !!!!! wtaf

is now recognised to be incorrect. in fact it is available & works fine in Friendica, so there is actually no problem here to solve.

the error was inadvertently mine... in the particular :firefoxnightly: profile i was using then, i have the mostly-wonderful Firefox Second Sidebar project installed. unfortunately, as i later discovered during my investigation, its own context-menu mods seem to clobber the new native split options, hence it did not show up. if instead using any profile without FF2nd SB, then open link in split view shows up, & works, just fine, in Friendica*.

* NB: none of the new SplitView TabSplit options work at all, if the tab is Pinned, alas. hopefully FF Devs will overcome this limitation soonish 🤞 🤞 🤞

#Friendica #firefox #firefoxnightly #SplitView #TabSplit #FirefoxSecondSidebar

Droppie [AU] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 14

#TIL that now in :firefoxnightly: & thus i intuit also ff-beta...

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

Verified fixed with Firefox 150.0b1 on Windows 11, macOS 15, and Ubuntu 24 that a Split View is successfully created when using Alt/Opt + clicking a tab with a different selected tab.

the bugger-factor though is that this is a native FF function, thus atm anyway is not available in AOs #Sidebery & #TreeStyleTab -- thus if using either, one needs to also still have access to the native tabs. In :firefoxnightly: i do that via a script that moves the native horizontal tab strip to the bottom, then autohides it. Meanwhile [depending on which Profile i'm using] for general browsing i use TST or S on the LHS.

#Firefox #FirefoxNightly #SplitView #TabSplit #dropbearpooterising #LinuxWomen

2012799 - Option + left-click to create a split view

VERIFIED (kcochrane) in Firefox - Tabbed Browser: Split View. Last updated 2026-04-10.

Droppie [AU] 🐨♀🌈🐧🦘Apr 12

#FirefoxNightly 's #SplitView function includes a context menu option to open link in split view. afaict this has not yet made it into vanilla #Firefox [tbc]. it is simply fabulous having the added flexibility this provides.

i've been using the native #TabSplit function in Nightly for several months, but the obvious lack, til recently, of this extra option was very frustrating. it's thus great now to have it.

the good news:
is available, works, on myriad general web pages, & wrt fedi - masto, #Statuzer , #Phanpy

the infuriating news:
it is not available in #Friendica !!!!! wtaf? 😲 🤯

having only just jumped back, again, to Friendica in the last 36 hours, i am beyond pissed off at this ridiculous discovery. damnit! 😡🥺