Google Chrome - Open pop-ups in new tab?

Question

Is there a way to set Google Chrome so that it opens pop-ups in tabs instead of opening new windows?

Answer 1

There is a 3 step workaround you can do this by

• You should know when the popup will be opened. Popups are blocked in chrome by default. But chrome will show a popup blocked notification in bottom right corner.
• click on notification to select always accept popup from this specific site
• Reload the main (parent) page. This will load the popup in small windows. Right click in titlebar of popup window and select "Show As Tab". Once popup is transformed in a window with tab, you can drag it back to main window.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

Answer 2

There is the chrome extension One Window.

It is not perfect, as the popup will first be opened and then "transformed" into a tab, which you will see as a flicker. Otherwise it seems to work fine.

Answer 3

This bug is exactly what the OP is asking for; go star it!

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=10511

Answer 4

I'm not sure about a setting that will make pop-ups open in tabs but you can Right-Click the top bar of the window (with the page title), select "Show As Tab" and then drag it to your main window.

Answer 5

As of current chrome no there is not. When addons are more prevalent I can't see this as being hard to code in. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't one already if you run chrome with the --enable-extensions flag if you have the latest dev version of chrome and can find an addon|extensions that does this.

Answer 6

As I post this, I've found the afformentioned One Window to be the only real solution. Apparently there is some difficulty in writing an extension that cleanly solves this problem due to JavaScript security in chrome.

Answer 7

Just go ahead and open it in the new window then click on the tab/web site label of that window and drag to the window already opened. That will integrate the other window as a tab in the original browser window.