Use Peek and Quick Window

Peek and Quick Window are transient browsing surfaces. Both use a real Crest Space profile so the page can access the right signed-in session and Crest Passwords, but neither has to become a durable tab.

Peek

Peek opens a link above the source page. Close it to return immediately, or choose the primary action to promote it into a full tab. Command-W closes an open Peek and Command-O promotes it.

In Settings → Quick Window and Peek, you can automatically open cross-site links from pinned and saved tabs in Peek. You can also choose whether Option-click or Command-click explicitly opens Peek; the other modifier opens the link in a new tab.

Peek remains attached to the source context. If the source is one card in Split View, promotion and page commands follow that focused card.

Quick Window

Quick Window handles a link from another app without dropping it immediately into the durable sidebar. It uses the configured Space’s cookies and passwords. When the page matters, move it into a normal window and choose the right Space.

Open a blank Quick Window with Option-Command-N on Mac. In Settings → Quick Window and Peek, choose whether external links use Quick Window, the most recent Space, or a chosen Space.

Cleanup and remembered destinations

Quick Window records can auto-archive after 1, 6, 12, or 24 hours, or remain until you remove them. Enable Remember the chosen Space for each site when repeated links from the same domain should return to the destination you previously chose.

Archived Quick Windows remain distinguishable in Archive so you can recover something you dismissed too quickly.