Chrome can already show two tabs side by side. When two isn’t enough (a dashboard, a document, a chat and a calendar all at once), you need a different tool. This guide shows both: Chrome’s own Split View for two sites, and Flincth Split View for three to eight.
Two sites: Chrome’s Split View
Right-click a tab and choose the split view option (it reads Add Tab to New Split View or Split View with Current Tab, depending on your version), then pick the second tab. If you don’t see it, update Chrome from Settings → About Chrome.
Drag the line between the two halves to give one side more room. It is quick, built in, and each side stays an ordinary tab, so sign-ins, extensions and downloads behave exactly as usual.
What it doesn’t do: show a third site, or remember the pair once you close it.
Three or more sites: Flincth Split View
Flincth Split View is a free extension that divides one tab into as many as eight panes, each with its own site, and saves the arrangement as a workspace you can come back to.
- Install it. Follow How to Install Flincth in Chrome.
- Create a workspace. Click the Flincth icon in the toolbar, then New workspace. Give it a name and pick Three columns, Wide left, two right or Four grid as the layout.
- Add more panes if you need them. Use Split left / right or Split top / bottom in any pane’s toolbar, up to eight panes.
- Put a site in each pane. Type an address or click Choose from open tabs.
- Size them. Drag the dividers. They catch on halves, thirds and quarters so separate rows line up.
The workspace is saved as you go. Close the tab, and the next time you open Flincth every site is back where you left it. The full walkthrough is in How to split a Chrome tab into your first workspace.
Which one to use
| Chrome’s Split View | Flincth Split View | |
|---|---|---|
| Sites side by side | Two | Up to eight |
| Remembers the arrangement | No | Yes, as named workspaces |
| Switch between arrangements | No | Click or keyboard shortcut |
| Each side is a normal tab | Yes | Sites show inside one tab; a site that refuses can open as a window lined up with its pane |
If you compare two pages now and then, Chrome’s own feature is all you need. If you rebuild the same three or four sites every morning, a saved workspace saves that time.
When a site won’t show
Some sites refuse to be shown inside another page, and some need a sign-in that an embedded view can’t reach. Flincth can open those as a real window lined up with the pane, or as a card that opens a normal tab. See When a site won’t show in a pane.