How Do You View Two Tabs Side by Side on a Chromebook?

The Split Screen feature is different from Chrome OS laptops, tablets, and convertible devices.

First, well cover the steps for using a split-screen on a notebook-style unit.

Dragging a Chrome OS Window on a Laptop-Style Device with a transparent white overlay highlighted

Click and drag the title bar of the window you want to move to be side by side.

Drag it toward the left or right side of the screen, as desired.

Youll notice half of the screen displays a transparent white overlay.

A Chromebook with Two Windows Side-by-Side, in Split Screen

Release the mouse button.

Youll notice the window snaps to the selected side, taking up 50% of the screen width.

Do the same thing in the opposite direction, and you’ve set up a split screen.

Dragging an Overview Mode Tile to the Side on Chrome OS in Tablet Mode with opaque regions highlighted

Finally, dragging on the title bar will bring the window back out of split mode.

Namely, apps are displayed full-screen by default, meaning theres no title bar.

If the current window minimizes, you stopped the gesture a little too early.

A Window Split Half-Screen on Chrome OS in Tablet Mode

take another crack, swiping all the toward the top of the screen.

The window will shrink to a tile, then join tiles representing all your other windows.

It’s called Overview Mode.

Drag your tile over one of these regions and release it.

The window will tile to the left or right, depending on where you dropped it.

Tap a tile to display the selected window in fullscreen.

Note that doing this will return all windows to fullscreen once you switch.

How Does Split Screen Work on Chromebooks and Tablets?

The Split Screen feature in Chromebooks is excellent for displaying two windows simultaneously and switching quickly between them.