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Max Tsyba edited this page Jun 17, 2025 · 1 revision

How to close the popup using keyboard?

  • Alt + F4
  • Ctrl + W
  • Escape key (if enabled in extension settings)

How to open page from the popup in the main window?

You can do it in 2 ways:

  • By right clicking on the page in popup window and selecting "Open page in main window"
  • Alt + Enter hotkey (if Esc hotkey is enabled in extension settings)
Demonstration

In fullscreen mode on Mac OS popup windows do not appear

Due to the specifics of fullscreen mode on Mac OS (fullscreen apps separate in their own Desktop space), popup windows do not appear above the fullcreen window. They either open on the "main" desktop (Firefox), or as a new fullscreen window (Chrome). To use this extension on Mac OS, you would have to open browser not in the fullscreen mode.

How to make popups remain always on top?

Unfortunately, browser extensions currently are not capable of manually setting "always on top" flag.

But you can use third-party programs in your system which can do it, for example PowerToys on Windows. Don't forget to disable autoclosing popup window when it loses focus in the extension settings.

How to use the new feature "Reopen new single tab windows as popup windows"?

This powerful feature, introduced in version 0.3, allows to extend extension abilities and open any link anywhere as a popup window. With this option enabled, extension will be waiting in the background for any new windows to open, and once a new window with only one tab opens, it will reopen it as a popup.

This way it can operate with links, which it couldn't access otherwise, for example: sites on new tab page, in bookmarks panel, links on browser-protected pages (chrome://, about:) etc. You could create a popup window the following ways:

  • Using right click context menu and selecting "Open in new window"
  • Shift + left click in Firefox (+ Ctrl in Chrome) – this will essentially duplicate extension's "Open with shift+click" option
  • Shift + Enter in Firefox (+ Ctrl in Chrome) on any focused element, for example search suggestion in address bar

Popup windows opened this way could not be positioned by mouse cursor location, so an alternative "Fallback popup window location" setting will be used ("Center" by default)

Private windows are not reopened as popup with this option enabled

You might need to manually allow this extension to run in private windows

How to reopen externally opened links as popup windows — similar to Little Arc feature from the Arc browser?

It is possible in Firefox by toggling the Reopen new single tab windows as popup windows feature and setting browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external config to 2 on about:config page

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