Ad Tray

Pop-ups don’t get to interrupt you.

They open in a small window in the corner instead. You look, then decide.

An interactive demonstration. Pressing the button on the simulated page adds a held pop-up to the tray instead of opening a tab.
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Blockers destroy the pop-up. Ad Tray keeps it, somewhere it can’t reach you.

Three things happen.

Nothing opens

The call the page makes to open a window is intercepted. The browser is never asked for a tab, so your tab strip stays exactly as it was.

It loads quietly

The page renders in a sandboxed frame in the corner. It can’t open more pop-ups, touch the page you’re reading, or reach its own cookies.

You choose

Open it properly, dismiss it, or trust the site so its windows come straight through. Sign-in and payment windows already do.

What it isn’t.

Not an antivirus

It can’t see your files. Nothing outside the browser is in reach, and anything claiming otherwise is overselling.

Not an ad blocker

Banners and in-page ads are untouched. Ad Tray only handles windows that open on their own.

Not always a preview

Some pages refuse to render in a frame. Those show an empty window, and the open button still works.

Not collecting anything

No account, no server, no telemetry. What you hold and what you trust stays in your browser.

Free, and open source.

Works in Chrome. Nothing leaves your machine.

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Aril

An aril is the coat that wraps a seed and holds it until something opens it. A pomegranate is full of them.

That’s the idea here. Tools that sit between you and whatever is demanding your attention, and give the timing back to you. Ad Tray is the first, and it’s deliberately small.

Built by one person, in the open.