Open in Popup Window

Tracking since Apr 21, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 26, 2026
  description

  This tiny and lightweight extension provides ability to quickly preview links without leaving the current page context. It adds entry in context menu of links, and when clicked, opens new small window at cursor position, with no tab bar and address bar. 
  
  This extension is intended to be used as an analogue of Safari Link Preview, Arc Peek or Zen Glance. It's a great way to preview links, which works everywhere and is not affected by the CORS problem like extensions which are using iframe element for link preview.
  
  Features:
  ● Open images and search selected text in popup window
  ● Configurable popup height, width and default position on the screen
  ● Close popup window when regular window regains focus
  ● Automatically reopen new single tab windows and tabs opened by page as popup windows
  ● Remember popup window size on manual resize
  ●  Advanced image viewer with GIF playback control
  ● Customisable keyboard hotkeys
  
  Additional ways to open popup window: 
  ● Modifier key + left click (possible options: Shift / Ctrl / Alt / Meta)
  ● Double press modifier key
  ● Drag and drop on empty space
  ● Long mouse button click (Left / Middle / Right)
  ● Click on toolbar icon (Search / Open current page in popup)
  
  ⚠️ If "Open by drag" and "Shift+click to open" options are not working, or the popup window always gets positioned in the top left corner disregarding the settings, please make sure you gave extension permission to run on every page, and that current page is not restricted from access by extensions (for example, chrome://* pages)
  
  🛡️ Privacy
  This extension doesn't collect any private data. It's an open source project, and you can see the code on GitHub (as well as share your ideas): https://github.com/emvaized/open-in-popup-window-extension
  
  ❤️ Support project
  ●  Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/emvaized)
  ●  Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/emvaized/membership)

  This tiny and lightweight extension provides ability to quickly preview links without leaving the current page context. It adds entry in context menu of links, and when clicked, opens new small window at cursor position, with no tab bar and address bar. 
  
  This extension is intended to be used as an analogue of Safari Link Preview, Arc Peek or Zen Glance. It's a great way to preview links, which works everywhere and is not affected by the CORS problem like extensions which are using iframe element for link preview.
  
  Features:
  ● Open images and search selected text in popup window
  ● Configurable popup height, width and default position on the screen
  ● Close popup window when regular window regains focus
  ● Automatically reopen new single tab windows and tabs opened by page as popup windows
  ● Remember popup window size on manual resize
  ●  Advanced image viewer with GIF playback control
  ● Customisable keyboard hotkeys
  
  Additional ways to open popup window: 
  ● Modifier key + left click (possible options: Shift / Ctrl / Alt / Meta)
  ● Double press modifier key
  ● Drag and drop on empty space
  ● Long mouse button click (Left / Middle / Right)
  ● Click on toolbar icon (Search / Open current page in popup)
  
  ⚠️ If "Open by drag" and "Shift+click to open" options are not working, or the popup window always gets positioned in the top left corner disregarding the settings, please make sure you gave extension permission to run on every page, and that current page is not restricted from access by extensions (for example, chrome://* pages)
  
  🛡️ Privacy
  This extension doesn't collect any private data. It's an open source project, and you can see the code on GitHub (as well as share your ideas): https://github.com/emvaized/open-in-popup-window-extension
  
  ❤️ You can support this project here
  ●  Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/emvaized)
  ●  Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/emvaized/membership)

• Apr 21, 2026
  description

  This tiny and lightweight extension provides ability to quickly preview links without leaving the current page context. It adds entry in context menu of links, and when clicked, opens new small window at cursor position, with no tab bar and address bar.
  
  Features:
  ● Open images and search selected text in popup window
  ● Use Shift + Click to open in popup window
  ● Use drag and drop on empty space to open in popup window (disabled by default)
  ● Configurable popup height, width and default position on the screen
  ● Close popup window when regular window regains focus
  ● Automatically reopen new single tab windows and tabs opened by page as popup windows
  ● Remember popup window size on manual resize
  ● Customizable keyboard hotkeys
  
  This extension is intended to be used as an analogue of Safari Link Preview, Arc Peek or Zen Glance. It's a great way to preview links, which works everywhere and is not affected by the CORS problem like extensions which are using iframe element for link preview.
  
  ⚠️ If "Open by drag" and "Shift+click to open" options are not working, or the popup window always gets positioned in the top left corner disregarding the settings, please make sure you gave extension permission to run on every page, and that current page is not restricted from access by extensions (for example, chrome://* pages)
  
  🛡️ Privacy:
  This extension doesn't collect any private data. It's fully open source, and you can see the code on Github: https://github.com/emvaized/open-in-popup-window-extension 
  It requires access to your tabs in order to fetch information about the object under cursor when drag and drop event occured or context menu was opened.

  This tiny and lightweight extension provides ability to quickly preview links without leaving the current page context. It adds entry in context menu of links, and when clicked, opens new small window at cursor position, with no tab bar and address bar. 
  
  This extension is intended to be used as an analogue of Safari Link Preview, Arc Peek or Zen Glance. It's a great way to preview links, which works everywhere and is not affected by the CORS problem like extensions which are using iframe element for link preview.
  
  Features:
  ● Open images and search selected text in popup window
  ● Configurable popup height, width and default position on the screen
  ● Close popup window when regular window regains focus
  ● Automatically reopen new single tab windows and tabs opened by page as popup windows
  ● Remember popup window size on manual resize
  ●  Advanced image viewer with GIF playback control
  ● Customisable keyboard hotkeys
  
  Additional ways to open popup window: 
  ● Modifier key + left click (possible options: Shift / Ctrl / Alt / Meta)
  ● Double press modifier key
  ● Drag and drop on empty space
  ● Long mouse button click (Left / Middle / Right)
  ● Click on toolbar icon (Search / Open current page in popup)
  
  ⚠️ If "Open by drag" and "Shift+click to open" options are not working, or the popup window always gets positioned in the top left corner disregarding the settings, please make sure you gave extension permission to run on every page, and that current page is not restricted from access by extensions (for example, chrome://* pages)
  
  🛡️ Privacy
  This extension doesn't collect any private data. It's an open source project, and you can see the code on GitHub (as well as share your ideas): https://github.com/emvaized/open-in-popup-window-extension
  
  ❤️ Support project
  ●  Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/emvaized)
  ●  Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/emvaized/membership)

Permissions & access

Permissions

contextMenusstoragetabs

Host access

None declared

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