Small window

When you click a link in Mail, Slack, a terminal, or any other app, 1zero Browser opens it in a small window over that app instead of in a tab. Read it, press ⌘CtrlW, and you're back where you were. If the page turns out to matter, press ⌘CtrlO to move it into a tab as it is.

It's on by default. Turn it off in Settings → General → Small window with Give links from other apps a small window, and links open in tabs again.

Which links get one

• Web pages from another app open in a small window.
• Meeting links always open in a tab, since a call needs your camera and has to stay open behind other windows. This covers Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Whereby, Jitsi, FaceTime, Amazon Chime, and Discord events.
• Sites you've given a folder skip the small window and open as a tab in that folder. See Folders.
• Anything that isn't a web page, like a mailto: link or a file, opens as before.

The bar

The strip along the top of the small window takes the page's color and holds:

• Back, forward, and reload
• The page's icon and title. Click it to type a different address.
• A folder button, a copy link button, and Open
• A close button on Windows and Linux

Drag the strip to move the window. On a Mac, closing the last small window takes you back to the app the link came from.

Keys

Back and forward use your platform's usual keys (⌘Ctrl[ and ⌘Ctrl] on a Mac, ⌥Alt with the arrow keys elsewhere). Other browser keys, like ⌘CtrlT, go to your main browser window.

Open

Open moves the live page into a tab in your browser window, so nothing reloads and your place on the page stays. Pages you only looked at in a small window aren't added to your history; opening one as a tab adds it then.

Folders

The folder button (or ⌘Ctrl⌥AltO) lists your folders. Pick one to open the page as a tab there.

Under them, Always open with the site's name lets you choose where that site's links go from now on: a small window (the default) or one of your folders. Rules go by the site's address, so a rule for github.com doesn't cover gist.github.com.

Settings → General → Small window → Sites that open in a folder shows how many rules you have, and Forget clears them.

A small window from any app

Turn on Open a small window with … in any app in Settings → General → Small window to get a key that opens an empty small window over whatever app you're in, ready for an address or a search. It's off by default. The key starts as ⌘Ctrl⌥AltN, and you can pick another under Keys.

While it's on, the browser takes those keys from every other app. If another app already uses them, pick different ones.

Limits

• A small window doesn't ask for permissions. Sites you've already allowed (a camera, notifications) keep working, but anything that would ask is blocked. Open the page as a tab and the tab asks.
• Find in page, zoom keys, and passkeys don't work in a small window yet. Open the page as a tab for those.
• A link that turns out to be a file downloads, and the window closes.
• ⌥Alt-click or a long press on a link loads it in the small window rather than peeking at it.