In the Column and Row Layout respectively, a single click opens the selected mail in a full window (within the ProtonMail window) or the detail pane next to it (right hand side).

A double-click on a mail should open it in a full separate window or tab instead (configurable as a new Settings option).

Can we please make this happen?

Essential web client feature

Throwing my votes on this request as well. There are times when it is needed to simply double-click an email message and it opens up in its own window and you can OS/tab switch to that mail message quickly. Outlook has provided this for years and is one of the last things I and the family miss since switching to Proton. Note this only really needs to be for desktops (MacOS first ;-)). Keep up the great work Proton Team and please add this functionality to Proton Mail!

This is perhaps one of the biggest issues when using proton for business. I need to convey information from one team to another while filtering out sensitive information. Not having the ability to have an existing email in a separate window to view while typing a new email in another window makes basic emailing extremely challenging.

Seem such a simple thing to do Proton, and if not the value to regular users (not to mention those not coming or leaving your business because of this- I'm new and this is frustrating already, even if I really want to leave outlook... means worth the effort to implement?

We NEED this.

I especially need this when I am paying bills. For example if I get an email from a bank, I will check the info against my banking software. Or I make a purchase online, I'd like to be able to pop open the window (without have to move the entire app window) that opens on right side of the screen so I can then go into the banking software and enter the amount.

Really important feature.

Yeah so I just migrated from Outlook to ProtonMail because I thought I'd give it a try (with my custom domain email). I use it for jobs, and not having a pop-out chat is quite a deal breaker. Is there any way to get more traction on this? I added my three votes...

As a separate use case for the same feature, I receive some emails which contain a very long amount of text to read (it's part of a fiction story) and it's nicer to popout the email to its own window so I can resize it (narrow and tall) for reading, and keep the window until I'm done reading the whole thing, without it being in the way of seeing new incoming emails. So, I prefer the separate window to show only the email and not have the rest of the Proton Mail web-app UI. And, that it is fully resizable by the user.

I'd be fine with the "Open in a New Window" action in the same list as View Headers and other less used options.

Sadly, I'm out of votes and don't know how to regain some. This idea is very important to me, I miss this functionality since I've started using ProtonMail.

I would also like to be able to see more of my composition as I write an email. As well, controlling the scrolling, up and down, is often very difficult and annoying.

I was reading my emails through the proton.me web-interface and I liked the use of the up and down arrows (to move across the folders), then the left and right arrows (to move between the columns, which allows to choose the emails and then to scroll through the email itself).

However, my laptop screen is a bit small and there is little space for the email to be fully displayed (I would need to scroll left and right to be able to read it, which is quite difficult).

I was looking for any button or option to quickly display the email full screen or to pop it up in a separate window to allow easy reading? Or, perhaps a shortcut key I could use to make this happen?

Investing 3 votes to this issue. Please bring the small popup icon and/or double-click behavior into the browser for a popup UX such as that found with other email programs (I would recommend both the popup in a new window and the popup into a new tab as minimal, whether that be via a setting or preferably just an interaction on-the-fly each time you initiaite a popup). Thank you!

ProtonMail architects-- Hello, hello, and hello. It seems like there are several protonmail users that all want the same thing. Every now and then, I check back to see if there is any implementation for this and am disappointed. Please please give the users of Protonmail the ability to read messages in a NEW WINDOW. It's 2022 now. Again , please let us read /open messages in a new window with a pop up.

Voted!
I found a similar suggestion which implies the opening of messages in new tabs which would be good enough...but the suggestion date seems to be around the year 2015 :(

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/7499266-open-messages-in-a-new-tab-with-right-click

This is a must!

This feature would be invaluable to me!

Allow me to open emails in full size window so I can read all the text. Can't resize the windows either. The old version was better.

Agree with this one - need a way to view email in a separate window.

Open message in its own window to read and reply.