Open a link in a Quick Peek

A Quick Peek opens a link on top of the page you’re reading, without adding a tab. Close the Quick Peek to go back, or keep the page if you want it.

A Quick Peek stays inside your window. A link from another app, like Slack or Mail, opens in a Peek, a small window of its own.

You’re reading a Fastmail thread with a link to a Codeberg issue, and you want a quick look before you answer.

Steps

To open a Quick Peek from a link’s menu, right-click the link, then choose Open Link in Quick Peek.

In the bar at the top of the Quick Peek:

Open as tab. The page becomes a tab next to the one it came from, and Sval shows the new tab.
Open in Split. The page shows next to the tab it came from, in a Split. If that tab is already in a Split, the page joins that Split. A Split of four pages has no room, and the button says so.

The Quick Peek uses the sign-ins of the tab it opened from.
The bar shows the page’s address.
Clicking outside the Quick Peek or on its close button also closes it. So does switching to another tab, or the tab underneath going to another page.
A window shows one Quick Peek at a time.
A page you opened in a Quick Peek goes to History. It doesn’t go to recently closed tabs.
In a pin, a link to another site opens in a Quick Peek when you click it, with no ⌥ key needed. The bar then starts with “From” and the pin’s name.
You can open a Quick Peek with ⌥⌘-click or ⇧⌥-click (Ctrl+Alt+click or Shift+Alt+click on Windows and Linux) instead. Go to Settings › Keyboard shortcuts › Links, then select Change next to Open a link in a Quick Peek.
To turn off Quick Peek, go to Settings › Links › Links in pages and turn off the first switch. Or select Clear next to Open a link in a Quick Peek in Settings › Keyboard shortcuts. The click then does what it does without Sval, and Open Link in Quick Peek leaves the link’s menu. Links from pins have their own switch in Settings › Links: Open links to other sites from a pin in a Quick Peek.