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Feature Request - Open Dissenter as new tab/window

Open animegirl13 opened this issue 5 years ago • 7 comments

Title is self explanatory but yeah. Would love if there was a button to open dissenter as a new tab or window

animegirl13 avatar Mar 02 '19 01:03 animegirl13

Thanks for the suggestion. For clarity, would you envision this feature working like:

  • A button is displayed on a page, upon click, a new tab/window opens
  • The Extension button (next to the url input in the browser), upon click, opens a new tab/window
  • Something else?

mgabdev avatar Mar 06 '19 01:03 mgabdev

Speaking for myself (since OP didn't respond yet), the reason I want this is because the browser popup is too easy to close. If I want to copy something from the page to quote, the popup closes, and the Dissenter page inside it is lost with my comment.

My particular problem can be solved better by #16 - a sidebar that does not close when I try to copy something would be ideal.

Strictly looking at this ticket, I can envision two scenarios useful to me:

Scenario A: Setting of where to open the comments

There is a preference/setting where I can choose what the Extension button (next to the URL) does, the options being:

  • Show a pop-up (as is now)
  • Open in a new page/tab/window (regular browser window like other pages)

Scenario B: "Pop-out" button

There is a "pop-out" button somewhere on the pop-up, which lets you make that pop-up into a regular page/tab/window. However scenario B might be a bit slower, since the browser has to load the comments page for the popup, and then for the regular page again.

danuker avatar Mar 06 '19 08:03 danuker

* A button is displayed on a page, upon click, a new tab/window opens

That was what I originally had in mind, however after reading @danuker post I believe his Scenario A would work out better.

animegirl13 avatar Mar 06 '19 16:03 animegirl13

There is a workaround for scenario B, at least in Firefox: right-click the popup, then go to "This Frame" -> "Open Frame in New Tab".

danuker avatar Mar 12 '19 17:03 danuker

@animegirl13 : don't you think a sidebar (either browser-based or HTML-injected) would be even better?

danuker avatar Mar 12 '19 18:03 danuker

I'm all for tapping the extension button and getting the dissenter page open up in a new tab.

geeknik avatar Mar 24 '19 00:03 geeknik

@mgabdev Just inject some HTML to the current page e.g. <div id="root"></div> and render the whole app inside that div popup. That way you could make the window draggable, resizeable and also add some opacity to see some of the websites content. At least that's what I would do. Right now the extension feels clunky to work with, because the window is small, fixed and you have to scroll a lot.

DennisLoska avatar Apr 02 '19 22:04 DennisLoska