382895 - Permit to split a single page in two (or more)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Eric Estievenart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2)

First this is not a duplicate of Bug 231156.

The idea is to allow splitting a page in 2 or more, like most calcsheet editors permit to do nowadays (with scrolling synchronized).

Missing this feature is very painful when you have to browse very long or large tables, for which you can see both the headers and the data at the bottom.

Regards

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Nope

Comment 1

[Eric Estievenart]

read "can't see" of course instead of "can see"

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

I don't see why this isn't a duplicate from bug 231156. I would also like this feature, but it has been decided that it won't be part of Firefox, at least not the base install. Bug 231156 contains links to a few extensions that implement it.

Comment 3

[Eric Estievenart]

I don't see any extension which permits to split a page in two halves,
while their scrolling is synchronized, and without scrollbars between them.
This is generally done by dragging a small control which is besides the
scrollbars.

Did I miss something ?

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Are you talking about the extra horizontal scrollbar that is visible between the 2 parts, instead of the single line (for the most common way of using the split-control) ? Vertical scrolling would never be synchronized in this case, but if there's only 1 horizontal scrollbar for both parts, the 2 views are effectively synchronized. If there are 2, they would not be synchronized.

The current extensions are probably not what you want, but this is not the place to request a change in them. The pedantic answer would be to write your own, but that's not a suggestion I want to make. In fact, I don't think this type of control is already possible in Gecko, or 2 views on the same data (MVC model), which is why the current extensions are not what you want.