Do you ever wonder what more could possibly be added to established products like Chrome or Gmail? Yet new features — like Chrome’s Split View — continue to surprise me, and I’m all for it.
I use the Rectangle window manager app to adjust multiple windows on my screen. But when I have to split the view with 2 Chrome tabs, I often separate those tabs into another Chrome window. With this cool split-view feature, I get to stay in the same Chrome window and have only specific tabs split side by side.
I was probably living under a rock as people are talking about this since Dec 2025, and I only discovered it by accident today while I was copying my post to dev.to. Either way, I already see myself using it every day.
To have a split view, select the two tabs and right-click. Select "Add tab to new split view" option.
And you have merged tabs!
You can resize the frames like this
If you don't see this option, then you likely have this feature disabled. Type chrome://flags/#side-by-side in new tab and enable the split view feature.
Checkout the official blog post here: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/chrome-productivity-improvements/
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