Arc/Zen-style link preview "glance" pop-ups

[probablywrong]

This feature works when you hold shift then click a link, that link opens in a pop-up above your current website without requiring a full new tab being opened. That's super, super convenient especially when you just want to don't want to lose your place on a page but do want to explore the link. Then if you do want to open the link in a full new tab, you just hit a button to do so and bam, now it's a new tab.

No joke, this is the feature that originally kept me on Arc for so long, then when I realized Zen had it, I switched to that, then eventually to Firefox for other reasons, but man I miss the "glance" link popups. It is the only reason I still sometimes think about switching back to Zen.

[Jon]

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[Bohemax]

i also like this on zen browser.it's especially useful when you search something on google and without opening all search results,  you simply alt+click and see what's inside of that link. 

Also zen glance > Firefox link preview 🙂

[Bohemax]

Bring Zen Browser Glance for Firefox

Hello. I find Zen Browser's Glance feature very useful. Being able to see what's inside a link with a single click (alt+click,ctrl+click or something) without even opening it, when you search on Google or on websites like Reddit, really saves time and eliminates the hassle of opening and closing multiple tabs one by one. I think the Firefox team would use their resources more effectively if they focused on a feature like Glance instead of Preview.Zen Glance

[Jon]

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[Jon]

@Bohemax is this what you're looking for? 

Try Link Previews in Firefox 142 - See What’s Behind a Link Before You Click 

[Bohemax]

@Jon No. If I'm not mistaken, Link Preview uses AI to only provide a summary of the page or a preview of its featured sections. Glance, on the other hand, shows a preview of the page itself and leaves the decision of whether the page is what the user is looking for to the user, not to AI.

[chubbyjpkc]

Seconded! Zen's glance feature is incredible and having it native to Firefox would be brilliant. Being able to quickly read and navigate a page without committing to opening a new tab would be great for productivity.

[n9]

Demo of working:
https://docs.zen-browser.app/assets/user-manual/glance/glance.webm

So alt+click opens a preview of link in the same tab like a html element

Clicking close closes tab and clicking expand, expands it and shows it as a new tab seamlessly. The idea is to prevent people from opening too many tabs from searchpages and to only have tabs when needed.

[nesa402610]

Добавить возможность выбора "открывать все ссылки в Glance" или "Ручное открытие Glance". 
Если на странице есть ссылки октрывающие новую вкладку, то это в первую очередь должно открываться в Glance, чтобы не создавать лишних вкладок. В работе крайне полезно, из-за этого не могу перейти c Arc полностью

Add the ability to choose "open all links in Glance" or "Manually open Glance". If there are links on the page that open a new tab, then this should first be opened in Glance, so as not to create unnecessary tabs. It’s extremely useful at work, because of this I can’t switch from Arc completely

[marc3g]

I loved this feature from zen, in fact, it was one of the main reason I started using it until they came with that madness of mirroring tabs and then I had to go back to FF, but for someone who keep a big number of tabs this is a great, having the capability of opening a page for a quickly review is really convenient. The UX is really great for productivity for multi-tasking people. I tried to reproduce this from an extension standpoint and it is almost impossible if not impossible.

[Jon]

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