Firefox 160 introduces Mini Windows, which lets you move a web page out of a browser tab and into a floating always-on-top window. If you're using Panic Button, the Firefox extension from AE Creations that quickly hides your browser windows from curious eyes with a click of a button, you should know about an issue affecting the "Hide and Replace" action.
If there are any open Mini Windows at the time the Hide and Replace action is invoked when clicking the Panic Button on the browser toolbar (or by pressing the keyboard shortcut F8), when the browser windows are restored, each web page that was displayed in a Mini Window before hitting the Panic Button is reopened in a regular but shrunk-down browser window.
A possible workaround is to change the Panic Button action to Minimize All Windows. But if the option to open a temporary replacement window is enabled, the replacement window may open in the same size as a Mini Window.
There is currently no fix available to properly restore Mini Windows after restoring your browser windows following a Hide and Replace action. I will look into improvements on the Minimize All Windows workaround.
Split View Also Not Supported
There's also an issue affecting Hide and Replace if you use Split View. If there are any browser tabs that were opened in Split View at the time the Panic Button is invoked, when the browser windows are restored, the previously side-by-side tabs reappear as separate tabs.
Again, a workaround is to use Minimize All Windows instead of Hide and Replace. I'll look into a fix once additional support for managing Split View is available to Firefox extensions.
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