LightWindow: link preview, browser-in-browser
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Viewing pages in the third dimension. A new way to solve the too many tabs problem.
With LightWindow, you no longer have to open each link in a new tab, because you can open them in a lightweight pop-up preview window, thereby saving both your time and the number of tabs.
Main advantages:
✅ Instant link preview with nesting support. View links without leaving the current tab. Is the link inside the preview? No problem, because you can open a new preview on top of the current one
✅ Translation of pages directly in the preview window. Now, if the page is in a foreign language, you don’t need to open it in a new tab to start the translation, because you can translate it right in the preview
✅ Convenient resizing and moving of the preview window, as well as the page scale inside it. The window size and position are remembered for each nesting level. And if you need to zoom in on the page you are viewing, you can do it in the usual way - by pressing Ctrl and scrolling the mouse wheel.
✅ Support for input in the address bar: enter the address of the site you want to go to, or a search query, without opening a new tab. It is possible to open a new empty preview window (including on top of already open ones).
Note: After installing the extension, before trying to test it, reload the page you are doing it on.
Latest reviews
- Peter Lai
- Feature Request: 1. add hover option to the Way to open preview by just staying a period of ms on the link and ability to customize the Timeout (ms) of it just like Via hold (long click). 2. add option to adjust the pop out window size, such as default, compact, large, tall, wide, full width and ability to customize the size. 3. add option to decide how the pop out window disappears, such as leaving the range of the pop out windows or clicking somewhere else. All in all, Excellent extension!
- hc g (neotpravlennoye)
- Need the following features: Dark mode, including header, footer, border The window is automatically centered Background page blur and dark
- Kien Tran
- I wish I could holding Shift and clicking links to open preview.
- Robert Smith
- Hands down the absolute best Popup / Link Preview solution on the entire webstore. I've tried them all. The long-press activation is sooooooo slick. Amazing. Note: Logging into websites (like chatgpt) currently seems to impossible (sure there is a reason). Request: would love it if url parameters were passed from links into the preview. (Use case: text-fragment links. Eg, links that take you directly to a piece of text on a page. Imagine being able to, not only, quickly preview a webpage you saved, but a specific PART... of a webpage you saved! Cheers!
- Daniel Connelly
- Really nice extension. The nesting tab feature is an overlooked feature by many other competitor extensions. Please consider adding the ability to `pin` the preview(s)!
- Piotr Krzyżanek
- Exactly what I was looking for. Awesome.
- Daniel Alejandro
- WONDERFUL EXTENSION! it's 5/5 worthy, I just wish I could remap the shortcut, because in my case (and many) the middle mouse wheel click already opens links in a new tab, so I either have the preview open with a new tab in the background, or the extension doesn't registre the click at all. If it was ctrl+left mouse click it would be perfect and much more confortable for me (have to apply pressure to do the mouse middle click) , or anything else. regardless of that, I just want to thank the developer of this extension for making my life somewhat easier :)
- Maxwell Wilson
- AMAZING, best I've tried - only wish there was an option to activate when hovering a link for a few seconds