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feat(desktop): pop a browser tab out into its own window - #31984
On desktop, "Open separate preview window" opened a view-only picture-in-picture window that streamed screenshots, so you couldn't click or type in it. On a multi-monitor setup there was no way to use the browser on another screen while the chat stayed on the main one.
Open in separate window (⋯ menu, and the mini player's pop-out button) opens a real BrowserWindow. It loads the web app at a new #/browser-window/<runtimeTabId> route, which renders only that tab's preview panel (the toolbar and a working webview).
The pop-out's guest is registered under the same tab id, so agent control, recording, and the profile partition (logins and cookies) carry over. DesktopPreviewTabState gets a detached flag. While it's set, the main window unmounts its webview, shows a Bring back placeholder, and hides the mini player.
In the pop-out, the toolbar's float button becomes Bring back to chat. Closing the window brings the tab back too.
The native picture-in-picture menu item is removed for local tabs. Server-streamed tabs still use the existing picture-in-picture window.
Tradeoffs and follow-ups
The page reloads when it moves between windows, because a <webview> guest can't be reparented. Logins survive, but scroll position and form state do not.
Manually tested on macOS in the desktop dev app: pop a tab out, browse and interact in the pop-out, bring it back from the pop-out button, the main-window placeholder, and by closing the window.
Desktop and web typecheck, lint, format and knip pass.
Linux was verified during takeover below. Windows, multi-monitor window placement, and server-streamed tabs remain unverified in this run.
At 77ad59396eaf86dc65a0450e075c393e5782d4f6, Blacksmith vp run check:changed passes (202 tests and 37 affected-package typechecks, plus format, lint, knip and React compiler checks). Linux Electron verification covers source-panel hiding, annotation delivery with its screenshot, and returning from a failed navigation. macOS and Windows were not rechecked in this run.
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The desktop preview can open a browser tab in a separate window and return it to the main panel. IPC and preview state track detached tabs. A dedicated route renders the selected tab, while preview controls provide open and return actions.
The IPC contract adds detached state and open/close operations. Desktop IPC validates the open request and exposes both operations through the preload bridge.
PreviewManager validates the partition, creates and tracks a tab window, registers its webview, and updates detached state. Closing a tab or the main window also closes its tab window. Shared helpers harden webview preferences and check same-origin navigation. Tests cover tab-close races and same-origin navigation checks.
Pop-out routing and detached state apps/web/src/routes/browser-window.$runtimeTabId.tsx, apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx, apps/web/src/routeTree.gen.ts, apps/web/src/browser/*, apps/web/src/previewStateStore.ts, apps/web/src/previewStateStore.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/usePreviewBridge.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/usePreviewBridge.test.ts
A browser-window route renders the selected tab outside the app shell. Hosted webviews show a return control while detached and reset their recovery source when reattached. Preview state and test fixtures include the detached flag.
Preview controls and mini-player apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewChromeRow.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewMoreMenu.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx
Preview actions open detached tabs and return them to the panel. The mini-player uses the configured webview partition and excludes detached browser previews from the canvas preview.
pingdotgg/t3code#30624: The pop-out preview flow is related to this PR’s separate-window rendering; annotation voice events are forwarded only to the main window.
pingdotgg/t3code#28844: Adds annotation voice events handled in PreviewView, which this PR also renders in a separate window.
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge, maria-rcks
Merge Risk: Low · up to e30fb
Pop-out browser tabs look mergeable. One small UI edge case may remain in the return button before its state loads, and one test name is misleading. Both are low risk and can be handled as follow-ups.
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The description follows the template well. It has Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. The problem is clear: the existing pop-out was view-only, and multi-monitor users could not use the browser on another screen. The Change section lists the new BrowserWindow route, the detached flag and placeholder, the pop-out toolbar and close behavior, and the removal of native picture-in-picture for local tabs. The Scope section links the discussion #31971. The Verification section lists manual macOS testing, passing typecheck, lint, format, and knip, and a Linux takeover check with a proof GIF. Recordings are embedded for UI evidence. Windows, multi-monitor placement, and server-streamed tabs are stated as unverified. The description includes a model attribution line, which the template requests when an agent did the work. Some items are weaker. The takeover verification section does not describe the commands run in detail beyond a named check target, and the Scope section does not restate the maintainer approval comment itself, only the issue link. Neither gap makes the description largely incomplete.
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- Line 2887: Update the detached-state mutation in the registration flow to
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Opening a browser tab in a separate window now opens a real, interactive
window instead of the view-only picture-in-picture snapshot. The panel in
the main window shows a placeholder until the tab is brought back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Block same-window navigation away from the app origin, since the preload exposes desktopBridge.
- Undo a detached write that lands after the pop-out already closed, and let closeTabWindow clear a stuck detached state.
- Keep "Bring back to chat" enabled when the page failed to load.
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Custom-scheme origins serialize as "null", so comparing origins let t3code://other/ or file: URLs through. Reuse isSameOriginRendererNavigation, moved to its own module so Manager can import it without a cycle.
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Minor · Make the pop-out action close the window directly. · PreviewView.tsx:933-937
apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx:933-937 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Make the pop-out action close the window directly.
Line 942 now enables this button before the guest is ready. While the partition loads or if its lookup fails, the button says “Bring back to chat” but toggles the mini-player instead. If the partition exists but detached has not arrived, handleTabWindow opens or focuses the existing window instead of closing it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Call tabWindow.close(runtimeTabId) directly in the pop-out, without requiring a partition or detached state.
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Update the pop-out action in the PreviewView handler to close the window
directly with tabWindow.close(runtimeTabId), without requiring webviewPartition
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- Around line 2902-2903: Update the will-navigate handler to compare the
destination URL’s protocol and host with appUrl’s protocol and host, and prevent
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- Around line 933-937: Update the pop-out action in the PreviewView handler to
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Fixed in 62e50a0: the pop-out now uses isSameOriginRendererNavigation (moved to window/RendererNavigation.ts to avoid a Manager↔DesktopWindow import cycle). Negative cases (t3code://other/, dev scheme, file:, data:, javascript:, about:blank, blob:, unparseable) are already covered by its existing test in DesktopWindow.test.ts, so I didn't duplicate them at the listener layer.
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- Line 2831: Update openTabWindow to validate that tabId still exists in tabsRef
and is not present in closingTabIdsRef before checking or creating a window;
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@Wladefant Thanks for the follow-up. 47478b3 moves the helper's regression test next to it in apps/desktop/src/window/RendererNavigation.test.ts. It covers t3code://other, other hosts, ports and userinfo, t3code-dev:, file:, data:, javascript:, about:blank, blob:, a malformed URL, and an empty application host as rejected, and the exact application host (both t3code://app/ and t3code-dev://app/) as allowed.
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Rename the test: the title contradicts the first assertions.
The title says the test rejects navigations. The first loop asserts isTrue for same-host navigations. Rename the test, or split it into an accept case and a reject case. The it title then matches the behavior.
The reject list also contains "t3code-dev://app/" at Line 22. This case is useful: it checks that a different scheme is rejected for the t3code://app/ application URL.
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Fix the test name.
The test name says "rejects renderer navigations whose origin only serializes as null". The first loop asserts acceptance for same-host navigations. The name does not match the assertions. Rename the test, for example to "compares protocol and host instead of origin".
Also, the t3code-dev://app/ entry on Line 22 repeats the intent of the t3code-dev: rejection case. The case is valid, so keep it.
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@Wladefant thanks for re-checking — glad the generation fence + locked window creation closes the race. Since then, e30fbff only renames a test in RendererNavigation.test.ts (CodeRabbit nitpick); no lifecycle changes. Would you mind updating your earlier CHANGES_REQUESTED review when you get a chance?
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Annotations from the pop-out now reach the chat prompt (daceb6c9ed): annotating elements, regions or drawings in the pop-out window silently did nothing. The pop-out keeps its own copy of the chat drafts, so annotations were saved there and never showed up in the chat. Now the pop-out hands each annotation to the chat window, which adds it to the prompt draft along with its screenshot, just like inline annotations. A "send now" annotation from the pop-out goes into the draft instead of sending right away, because the pop-out can't send messages. I tested this by hand in the desktop app.
Thanks. I checked this by hand in the macOS desktop app. The traffic lights close, minimize and zoom the window. Dragging the toolbar moves it. Back/forward, refresh, the address bar, annotate, screenshot/record and picture-in-picture all still take clicks and keyboard input. Resize and fullscreen behave normally. Windows and Linux keep their native title bar.
Since your last review I've pushed two more fixes. Annotations from the pop-out now reach the chat prompt (daceb6c9ed). Popping out a tab with no page now shows the recent-pages list instead of breaking (a1880076c4), with a regression test, "detaches a tab with no page as soon as its window opens", that fails without the fix.
Updated takeover at 77ad59396eaf86dc65a0450e075c393e5782d4f6, with main merged without rebasing.
Reused the protocol-and-host navigation guard for packaged pop-out IPC. Regression cases reject about:blank, file: and a foreign custom-scheme host.
Validated annotation messages and required current operation permission plus the matching detached tab/runtime before changing a draft.
Preserved the Linux primary-paste setting in both guest hosts and kept notification coordinators in the chat window.
Kept detached tabs shown to the server when their source panel closes. The previous code sent shown=false while the pop-out remained open.
Blacksmith vp run check:changed passes: 202 tests, 37 affected-package typechecks, format, lint, knip and React compiler checks. Desktop and web bundles build. All 31 head checks are complete with no failures. Two independent reviews approve this head. Main advanced again after the second fix round; GitHub now reports a conflict in apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.tsx, also reproduced with git merge-tree. The two-round limit is reached, so this head is left unchanged and is not ready to merge.
Verified in the real Linux Electron app: pop-out IPC, closing the source panel while the pop-out stays open, annotation delivery with its screenshot into the chat draft, and returning to chat after ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. Both original Macroscope findings are fixed. No bot threads were replied to.
Unverified in this run: macOS, Windows, multi-monitor placement and server-streamed picture-in-picture.
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The window lifecycle and navigation guard look solid after the earlier rounds. Two integration problems remain with current main and the shared app bootstrap, plus one smaller gap. I've left out points already raised in earlier reviews; I agree with the open BroadcastChannel receiver-validation point.
High: the pop-out's IPC is rejected on current main (apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts:2899). #34094 (04f6cfca87, merged after this branch's last merge from main) makes DesktopIpc.handle/handleSync reject every sender except the main window's main frame (DesktopIpc.ts, isTrustedSender checks main.webContents.id === event.sender.id). The pop-out is a second BrowserWindow loading the same preload.cjs, so once this branch is merged with main, every desktopBridge call from it fails with DesktopIpcUntrustedSenderError. That includes tabWindow.close ("Bring back to chat"), the toolbar's navigate/back/reload, and whatever bootstrap IPC the renderer needs. GitHub still reports the PR as mergeable, so this conflict won't show up as a merge conflict. Suggested fix: treat registered tab-window hosts (tabWindowHostIds) as trusted only for an allowlist of preview channels. Don't widen the guard to every window: the pop-out loads the full bridge, including getLocalEnvironmentBearerToken. Please also re-test manually after merging main.
Medium: the pop-out runs the full appInit, so app-lifetime listeners run twice (apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx:179). The route branch skips the app hosts, but appInit.tsx still runs startElectronBrowserHost() and the other start* services in the pop-out renderer. PREVIEW_OPEN_LINK_CHANNEL goes out through electronWindow.sendAll, which uses BrowserWindow.getAllWindows(). Both renderers have an active session for the thread (the pop-out through usePreviewSession(threadRef)), so openLinkInPreview finds the source tab in both. Each renderer then calls previewEnvironment.open, so a new-tab link (target=_blank/cmd-click) from the guest should open two preview tabs. Suggested fix: gate the pop-out out of the app-lifetime services in appInit (or at least onOpenLink), or send open-link events only to the main window. A focused test for the routing decision would help.
Low: no context menu for guests in the pop-out (apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts:2931). The main window's did-attach-webview runs installContextMenu (Copy Link, Copy Image, cut/copy/paste, spelling suggestions). The pop-out's handler only wires the title and prepareWebview, so right-clicking the page in the pop-out does nothing. Consider moving installContextMenu somewhere both hosts can call it.
Low: unhandled rejection from the main-window "Bring back" button (apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.tsx:355). void previewBridge?.tabWindow.close(runtimeTabId) has no .catch. The ⋯ menu path (handleTabWindow) shows a toast on failure; using the same handler here would keep the behavior consistent.
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Heads-up on current main: #34094 (04f6cfca87) makes DesktopIpc reject any sender that is not the main window's main frame. Every desktopBridge invoke from this window (tabWindow.close, navigate, bootstrap calls) will fail with DesktopIpcUntrustedSenderError after merging main, and there's no textual conflict to flag it. I'd suggest trusting tabWindowHostIds for an allowlist of preview channels only, since this window also gets getLocalEnvironmentBearerToken through the same preload.
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This skips the app hosts, but appInit still starts startElectronBrowserHost() (and the other app-lifetime services) in the pop-out. PREVIEW_OPEN_LINK_CHANNEL is broadcast to all windows, and both renderers have a session for the thread, so a new-tab link from the guest should run openLinkInPreview → previewEnvironment.open twice. Gating these services, or at least onOpenLink, for the pop-out would avoid the duplicate tab.
- Trust a pop-out window's top frame (app origin, #/browser-window/) like the
main window; preview guests and their pop-ups stay rejected.
- Send opened links only to the main window so a pop-out doesn't open a duplicate tab.
- Give pop-out guests the same context menu as the main window.
- Toast when "Bring back" fails.
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Thanks for the review. Fixed in bdaeadd (after merging main, including #34094):
IPC guard (High): I didn't use a channel allowlist. The pop-out runs the full app, so it needs the bootstrap, bearer-token and settings channels to connect to the server, and an allowlist would end up containing the token anyway. Instead, DesktopIpc now trusts a sender only if it is a top-level window's top frame on the app's own origin at #/browser-window/. That's the pop-out window, which we create and which can't navigate off the app origin. Preview guests (webview contents), their pop-ups (other origins), and subframes are still rejected. The extended case in DesktopIpc.test.ts covers each of these.
Duplicate open-link (Medium):PREVIEW_OPEN_LINK_CHANNEL now goes only to the main window instead of sendAll, so only one renderer opens the tab. There's a test in preview.test.ts that fails on the old routing. I left the other app-lifetime services running in the pop-out, since I haven't seen them cause a visible problem; happy to gate them if you'd like.
Context menu (Low): pop-out guests now get the same installContextMenu as the main window.
Bring back (Low): failures now show the same toast as the ⋯ menu.
BroadcastChannel validation: skipped. The channel only carries messages between pages on the app's own origin, and guests are on other origins, so only our own windows can post to it. I can add a schema check if you'd still prefer one.
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Points 2-4 are fixed at 5c743c3: open-link only goes to the main window (ipc/methods/preview.ts:61), pop-out guests get the context menu (DesktopWindow.ts:635-641), and "Bring back" shows the toast (HostedBrowserWebview.tsx:357).
On point 1, trusting the pop-out as the app itself rather than allowlisting channels makes sense, since it needs the bootstrap and token calls anyway. The check that decides it is the app doesn't hold in packaged builds, though. isPopoutWindow compares URL.origin (DesktopIpc.ts:211), and the WHATWG URL parser returns "null" as the origin of every non-special scheme, so t3code://app/… matches about:blank#/browser-window/x, data:…, file:… or other-scheme://… just as well. In production the guard is then "a top-level window whose hash starts with #/browser-window/". Guest pop-ups are real windows (Manager.ts:1610-1613) and choose their own URL and hash, so the comment that they "never load the app origin" isn't enforced here. They're only kept out because they don't load preload.cjs. RendererNavigation.ts already solves this by comparing protocol and host, and the foreignWindow test uses an https URL, so it can't catch it.
Simplest fix: trust the sender by identity, since Manager.ts already tracks pop-out hosts in tabWindowHostIds (sender id in that set, and senderFrame === mainFrame). Otherwise reuse isSameOriginRendererNavigation. Either way, a test case with a t3code:// app URL and an about:blank#/browser-window/… window would cover it.
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URL.origin is "null" for t3code:// (and for about:, data:, file: and any custom scheme), so this compares "null" === "null" in packaged builds. Only the hash prefix is really checked. Could this use the pop-out host ids from tabWindowHostIds, or isSameOriginRendererNavigation (protocol + host) like the navigation guard?
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On desktop, "Open separate preview window" opened a view-only picture-in-picture window that streamed screenshots, so you couldn't click or type in it. On a multi-monitor setup there was no way to use the browser on another screen while the chat stayed on the main one.
Discussion: #31971
What changed
BrowserWindow. It loads the web app at a new#/browser-window/<runtimeTabId>route, which renders only that tab's preview panel (the toolbar and a working webview).DesktopPreviewTabStategets adetachedflag. While it's set, the main window unmounts its webview, shows a Bring back placeholder, and hides the mini player.Tradeoffs and follow-ups
<webview>guest can't be reparented. Logins survive, but scroll position and form state do not.Recordings
Screen.Recording.2026-11-06.at.12.31.31-1.mov
Screen.Recording.2026-11-06.at.12.28.18-1.mov
Testing
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77ad59396eaf86dc65a0450e075c393e5782d4f6, Blacksmithvp run check:changedpasses (202 tests and 37 affected-package typechecks, plus format, lint, knip and React compiler checks). Linux Electron verification covers source-panel hiding, annotation delivery with its screenshot, and returning from a failed navigation. macOS and Windows were not rechecked in this run.