Popup Launcher Launch

The Minimum Width

Browsers don't like to get smaller than a certain size. For example, Firefox won't get smaller than about 500px on my machine.

Generally not a problem. Unless you're trying to squeeze them down to get more screen real estate to make videos.

The New Minimum Width

A little hack you can use is to launch the page as a popup from another window. Browsers have different minimum widths for windows launched that way. In my case, I can get a Firefox window down to ~100px wide.

Pop'em Up

I've had make popup windows a few times this week. while working on videos for bitty¹. It's not hard, but it take a little time. More than enough to be annoying.

So, I built a tool to handle it. Introducing:

popup.alanwsmith.com

Drop in a URL, set the width and height if you want, and fire away. You're new window will be ready to shrink.

-a