Popup Tab
Convert a tab into a popup and vice versa
What is Popup Tab?
"Popup Tab" is a Firefox add-on designed for improved web browsing flexibility. It enables users to swiftly turn Firefox tabs into separate popup windows and switch them back into tabs, maintaining the original page's load state during the process. The add-on memorizes domains' popup window sizes, and even allows users to set a hotkey for quick popup/tab conversion.
Add-on stats
By: eight04
Rating: 4.26
(23)
Creation date: 2017-03-16
Weekly download count: 7
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- contextMenus
- activeTab
- storage
Size: 10.68K
Email: ei*****@gmail.com
URLs: Website
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Add-on summary
Features
- Convert a tab into a popup window.
- Convert the popup window back to a tab, and insert back to original window.
- The tab is actually "moved" between the normal window and the popup window, so you don't have to reload the page.
- The popup window size is maintained based on the domain. You can also right-click in the popup window and make it remember the window size for the entire URL.
- Right-click the tab bar, select "Popup this tab". (Firefox 53+)
- Right-click on the page, select "Popup this tab". (Firefox < 53)
- In popup window, right-click on the page, select "Merge popup".
- From Firefox >= 66, you can set a hotkey that will popup/merge the current tab. Learn more
User reviews
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Pros
- Remember window size
- Preserves tab history when popping up
- Efficient and stable
Cons
- Needs assignable keyboard shortcuts
- Unable to automatically turn pop-up into tab
- Doesn't have an 'Always on Top' option
Most mentioned
- Preserves tab history when popping up
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Efficient and stable
Recent reviews
Tried this in 2024 no longer functions. Likely not developer's fault, seeing as all instructions for different methods of achieving this from around the web are all defunct. Mozilla seems to have changed/removed this capability without more extensive efforts.
by DanielTFox, 2024-05-01
It works! Firefox 121.0.1, Arch Linux, i3 WM (X11)
by Arzeth, 2024-01-21
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Popup Tab is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Popup Tab has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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