{"id":206718,"date":"2026-01-26T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/firefox-nightly-enables-split-view-mode-option-by-default\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:05:07","slug":"firefox-nightly-enables-split-view-mode-option-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/firefox-nightly-enables-split-view-mode-option-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Firefox-Nightly-Split-View\">Firefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Firefox-Nightly-Split-View\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Firefox-Nightly-Split-View<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-26 14:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest Firefox Nightly builds have now enabled the Split View mode by default to easily view two web pages at once within a single window.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox Split View is now on by default in the latest Firefox 149 Nightly builds so you can add an existing tab to a split view or multi-select two tabs for the split viewing mode.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=firefox_split_1_med\" alt=\"Firefox 149 split view mode on Ubuntu Linux\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I tried out the latest Firefox Nightly Linux build and indeed the split-view mode is working as advertised.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=firefox_split_2_med\" alt=\"Firefox split view mode\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Firefox Nightly builds now having split view mode enabled by default was mentioned in today&#8217;s Firefox Nightly News.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=firefox_split_3_med\" alt=\"Firefox AI window mode option\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That Mozilla blog post also noted the addition of the new browser.aiwindow.enabled configuration option to open a new AI Window. That Firefox AI Window is still in its &#8220;extremely early days&#8221;. The AI chat functionality also requires being signed into a Mozilla Account.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Firefox-Nightly-Split-View\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Firefox-Nightly-Split-View Publish Date: 2026-01-26 14:18:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=firefox_split_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-206718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206720,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206718\/revisions\/206720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}