gHacks technology news » split http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Display websites next to each other in Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/18/display-websites-next-to-each-other-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/18/display-websites-next-to-each-other-in-firefox/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:45:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/18/display-websites-next-to-each-other-in-firefox/ Did you ever have the problem that you needed information from two websites at once and had to switch between them all the time to access them ? I usually have the problem when I write a new article for Ghacks and have to take a look at another website to find the information that I need for my article. This gets extremely irritating if many tabs are open at once and I miss the tab that I want. To much clicks in my opinion, that is why I was searching for a way to display two websites next to each other in Firefox.

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I did find the Split Browser extension for Mozilla Firefox which does exactly what I wanted. It allowed me to split the screen anyway I wanted it to split.

I could split the content area vertically or horizontally, and split those areas again if wanted. I’m happy with two websites that are next to each other vertically but you could theoretically split the content area in four windows or even more.

The author of the extension has a screenshot at the extensions website that shows a content area with about 20 websites. This is of course just for demonstration purposes, no one would really split the content area in that many parts. I think the limit is four different areas, probably more if you run really high resolutions.

Using the extension is no problem at all. Once you have installed the Split Browser extension and restarted Firefox you see that the extension added a new entry to the right-click menu. The entry is called Split Browser to and it appears on websites and on links.

The options are to split the browser above, right, left or below which actually loads the same website again in the space that you have selected. If you choose right for example it will split the content area that way that the same website is loaded again on the right side of the previous one. You are free to decrease or increase the size of every website in the content area.

If you wanted to create a new area in the second half you would right-click in that half and select below for example to part it again.

I personally think that this is a must have extension for everyone who is having a blog for example. Switching tabs to view information that you need is no more. Great !

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need to add the path to mp4 box in the settings before you proceed to use some of the options that yamb offers. You may choose the creation or edition tab to use Yamb afterwards. The creation tab lets you create mp4 and 3gp files by adding other movie files such as divx ones. Created files can be further customized by splitting the output files for instance.

More important is the edition tab which lets you split and join mp4, mov and 3gp file and convert subtitles to the right format. Joining mp4 files is as easy as splitting them. Drop the files that you want to join in the correct order into yamb and select the output file. Please note that the output file has to exist, otherwise Yamb will abort the process.

Just create a blank file with the mp4 extension and everything should work out fine. Joining mp4 files is a fast process, it took Yamb 13 seconds to join two 60 megabyte mp4 files together.

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