<open>InNewWindow commands

[alexherbo2]

We could use app mode for these ones.

[mrmr1993]

I'm sorry to be dense, but what does this mean? I'm not sure I know what 'app mode' is..

[alexherbo2]

From man chromium

--app=URL
Runs URL in "app mode": with no browser toolbars.

[mrmr1993]

I can't find any part of the Chrome extensions API which allows us to access this functionality. Specifically, according to the chrome.windows API, we can query windows (chrome.windows.query) on whether they have type="app", but we can only create windows of type "normal", "popup", "panel" or "detached_panel", and the latter two are only different to "popup" when the --enable-panels flag set.

Unless I've missed something in the API, I don't think it is possible for us to do this.

[philc]

What's a representative use case this is ticket is intended to fulfill?

[alexherbo2]

Enable me to use Chromium like I use browser with no tabs. That is replace <open>InNewTab commands with <open>InNewWindow and set in app mode.

[mrmr1993]

Wouldn't it make more sense to add an "open in new window" command, without replacing the existing tab commands? Then you could unbind the tab commands and bind this "open in new window command" in your options.

Along with this, we can trigger fullscreen mode from Vimium, so it might be worthwhile also creating an "open in new fullscreen window command" command, which you could, again, bind instead of the tab command. This feels like a reasonable solution to the problem to me.

[alexherbo2]

Yes. It is what I mean.

[mrmr1993]

I've implemented the commands I described above as LinkHints.activateModeToOpenInNewWindow and LinkHints.activateModeToOpenInNewFullscreenWindow at PR #1049, in case you want to give it a try.

[alexherbo2]

Thanks a lot !

Shame window.type.app is missing from the API though :|

[alexherbo2]

How change the policy ‹ request new window › open page in a new window, instead of a new tab?

What to do when a website wants to open a new window:

hook global NewWindow <all_urls> OpenIn(Current|New)(Tab|Window)

[smblott-github]

Closing.
Old issue. Possible need for open in new window is known. Also happens to be in #1948.