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I Tried The Weird New Mini Window Feature in Firefox 160
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Well that was low on information, and the question in the intro ("Does that serve any purpose?") never got answered.
One use case I can think of is a liveblog, e.g. when they're a football match on. Mini Window makes it easy to keep that open to the side, and glance at it every now and then to see if anything worthwhile happened.
Don't get me wrong but pop up windows already serve that purpose. You're right that it could be used for writing something up, but they already introduced split view. I really feel like this is an edge case use.
Popup windows would need to be implemented by the website owners, and split views don't allow you to freely switch tabs in one pane while a different tab is firmly locked in another pane.
I've sought out this functionality before, used extensions to this effect, and I've found it occasionally helpful
And pop-ups also get covered by other windows as you switch between them.
You can use it whenever you want to have an eye on one page while you work on something else. E.g. a status page for a broken service (hello GitHub) that you want to use.
Instead of switching between tabs, or pulling a tab to a second monitor, you can have the mini window open.
AI. They definitely made the mini-window so you can track AI work.
I think the sidebar makes more sense for that - and of course, that's already supported.