Most sites display inside a Flincth pane without any fuss. A few don’t:
- Some sites refuse to be shown inside another page at all. The pane stays blank or shows an error.
- Some keep you signed in with storage that an embedded view can’t reach. The pane shows the site, but as if you were signed out.
Flincth doesn’t try to force either. It gives each pane three ways to show its site, and you choose.
| Mode | What you see | Sign-in |
|---|---|---|
| Inside the pane | The site, embedded in the tab | Depends on the site |
| Attached window | A real window lined up over the pane | Exactly as in a normal tab |
| Opens in a tab | A card in the pane that opens the site in a normal tab | Exactly as in a normal tab |
When a site is slow
If a site hasn’t finished loading after about eight seconds, the pane asks Trouble with this site? and offers:
- Keep showing this pane, if it’s just slow. The page keeps loading either way.
- Try again.
- Open as a window.
- Open in a tab, which opens the site in a normal tab and leaves the pane as it is.
You can turn this prompt off in Settings → Suggest alternatives when a site takes longer to load.
Open it as an attached window
Click Open as a window in the pane’s toolbar.
The site opens in a real window placed exactly over its pane. It behaves as it does in an ordinary tab, with the same session and the same sign-in, and it stays part of your workspace:
- It follows its pane when you resize the split.
- It minimises when you switch to another tab or another workspace, and comes back when you return.
- If you move the window or nudge the attached window, put it back yourself. doesn’t tell extensions when a window moves, so Flincth can’t follow it. Resizing the split lines it up again.
Because it’s a real window, it also appears in your window switcher and in screenshots of your screen.
Narrow panes. Your operating system won’t make a window narrower than about 500 pixels. If a pane is smaller than that, the pane says so, and the window overlaps its neighbours slightly. Widen the pane, or use fewer panes in that row.
Going back. To try the site inside the pane again, click Show this site inside the pane instead in its toolbar.
If you close the window. The pane says Its window is closed and offers Open the window. Flincth never reopens a window you closed on purpose.
If you close the Flincth tab. Attached windows stay open, in case they hold work you haven’t finished. The next time you open Flincth, it picks them up and lines them up with their panes again.
Open it in a tab
When a pane says example.com will not display here, click Open in a tab. On a pane whose site runs in an attached window, the same choice is Open in a tab instead.
The pane turns into a card saying example.com opens in a normal tab. Click Open in a tab on the card whenever you need the site.
This is the simplest option for a site you only check now and then.
Why Flincth doesn’t do more
Getting round a site’s refusal or reaching its sign-in from inside another page would mean reading your cookies or weakening ‘s security. Flincth does neither. Moving the site into a real window, where its sign-in already works, solves the same problem without touching either.