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The dock

Put the dock on any edge of the window, let it float over the page, and choose whether its icons grow under the pointer.

In the dock layout, the page fills the window and Luma’s controls sit in one bar on an edge, like the Windows taskbar. To use it, choose ⋯ › Layout › Dock.

What’s in the dock

Along the dock, in order:

  • The privacy shield, with the number of trackers and ads blocked on the page: click it for the privacy panel.
  • The workspace buttons and + for a new workspace. With a single workspace, only the + is there.
  • Back, Forward and Reload.
  • Your tabs, as icons: pinned tabs and Essentials first, then a small gap, then the others. + opens a new tab.
  • The address bar.
  • The tools: extensions, downloads, Settings and the ⋯ menu. When an update is ready, a Restart button joins them (see Updates).

Windows’ window buttons (minimize, maximize and close) are at the right end of the strip that holds the dock, or at its top when the dock is on a side; in the floating dock they’re at its start.

Rest the pointer on a tab to see its title and a preview. Click a tab to go to it; middle-click it, or click the small × that appears on it, to close it. If there are more tabs than fit, scroll along them with the mouse wheel.

Drag a tab along the dock to put it somewhere else, or onto a workspace button to move it to that workspace. Dragged out onto the page or out of the window, it works as in the other layouts (see Tabs).

Put the dock on another edge

The dock can sit at the bottom of the window (the default), at the top, on the left or on the right. There are three ways to move it:

  • Drag it: press on an empty part of the dock (not on a button, a tab or the address bar) and drag towards an edge. When you let go, the dock moves to the edge nearest the pointer.
  • Right-click an empty part of the dock and choose Bottom, Top, Left or Right.
  • In Settings › Appearance › Layout, set Dock position.

On the left or the right there’s no room for the address field: it becomes a search button. Click it, or press Ctrl+L, and the address bar opens over the page.

Floating dock

With Floating dock on, the page uses the whole window and the dock waits out of sight at its edge. Move the pointer to that edge and the dock comes out over the page; it goes back a moment after the pointer leaves it. It stays out while you type in its address bar or while one of its panels is open.

  • To turn it on, right-click an empty part of the dock and choose Floating dock, or switch on Settings › Appearance › Layout › Floating dock.
  • Ctrl+Alt+D brings the floating dock out from the keyboard and keeps it there. Press it again to send the dock back; it also goes back once the pointer has been on it and moves away.

Ctrl+Alt+D works only when the dock is floating.

Icons that grow

As in the Mac’s dock, the icon under the pointer grows and the ones beside it a little less. If you’d rather they stayed still, switch off Magnify icons in Settings › Appearance › Layout. Icons don’t grow while Efficiency mode is on (Settings › Performance).

The workspace’s colour

With two or more workspaces, the dock takes a faint tint of the colour of the workspace you’re in, and a thin line of the same colour runs over the page, so you can tell where you are at a glance; both slide to the next colour when you switch. With a single workspace the dock stays neutral. To change a workspace’s colour, right-click its button in the dock and choose Edit workspace….