Peek at a link

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

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

In the bar at the top of the Peek:

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

The Peek uses the sign-ins of the tab it opened from.
The bar shows the page’s address.
Clicking outside the Peek, or its close button, closes it too. So does switching to another tab, or the tab under it going to another page.
A window shows one Peek at a time.
A page you peeked at goes to History. It doesn’t go to recently closed tabs.
A link you click in a pin that goes to another site opens in a Peek without Option. The bar then starts with “From” and the pin’s name.
To turn off Option-click Peeks, go to Settings › Links › Links in pages and turn off the first switch. Option-click then does what the page expects, and Open Link in Peek leaves the link’s menu. Links from pins have a switch of their own there, Open links to other sites from a pin in a Peek.