Correct! I just message Proton about this, mostly about composing new emails. With a small laptop it's almost impossible to compose an email in that small pop-up window. We urgently need the option to maximize emails and composer to full screen in a separate window.

Need this basic function.

Proton developers should have implemented this feature several years ago (maybe even when the first release of the Proton Mail app came out). Yet, here we are (now 5 years downstream of when users first complained about this missing functionality), and Proton Mail app still does NOT have this feature.

I think Proton needs to prioritize this feature now. They spend so much time coming out with "new" software products instead of concentrating on making their current line of products the best they could be.

Unless Proton gets its act together pretty soon, I'll be seriously considering not renewing my paid subscription.

New user as of now. Astonished that a mail can't be opened in a separate window as I've been used to over the years. This is a showstopper for me. If not fixed in the very near future I will have to abandon protonmail. For now I have to keep using gmail instead.

I need to be able to work with multiple messages at the same time.

I just finished shifting all my emails over to Proton Mail after paying a bunch of money only to find out I can't pop out emails into a new window. WTF? Right now I have an email open that I'm using to draft something on another screen, and I had to close out of it so I could get into my inbox to confirm my email so I could leave this comment.

It's too cumbersome to have to keep changing the layout every time a wide email comes along. Most programs would allow you to click on the email and expand it or open it in a new window. Please add this feature!

excuse me, but this thread has been here a while and still they haven't done anything about this? SMH very disappointing. I pay a lot of money to proton every year. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR CUSTOMERS' REQUESTS. Moreover, honestly we shouldn't have to even ask about this in the first place, yall should have made separate windows from the beginning. Thanks

I'd love to see this!!

New Proton mail user and astounded this is not a basic functionality. Ouch! Can only echo many comments already posted about how important it is to be able to have multiple emails open simultaneously. A very basic feature that begs the question: do the designers of pm actually use their own product??

This is a must have feature.

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?

Request to have the ability to open email in its own full size window. Issue: Reading messages on my tiny Chromebook have the added burdened by the fact that the left column (Dashboard, Upgrade plan, Recovery, etc.) takes up a 1/4 of the window, rendering the content I'm trying to read ridiculously tedious to read at the minimum of speed.

It would be great if there were a button or a right-click option in the browser to open an email in a separate tab so you can view multiple emails simultaneously. This would also allow you to open emails to view later while going through your list, not to have to constantly start over in a duplicate proton mail tab.

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.