Prevent Safari from opening minimized window When I’m doing research for a project I’ll have one window with lots of tabs. When I’m doing other work, I like to minimize that window to save it for later.
What bothers me mightily is that I now have to always keep another Safari window non-minimized so that the minimized window(s) won’t suddenly be maximised again when clicking a link in another application or wanting a new Safari window by clicking the app icon. I want that minimized project window to always stay minimized unless I actively bring it forward.
Is there a way that Safari can treat that minimized window as “locked” in the dock? That it won’t be maximized when I click a link in another application or click the Safari dock icon?
I like this way of working with multiple windows, but I hate the fact that I can’t really close the active non-minimized window I’m now working in because it will make the minimized window reappear at some point.
One way is to use built-in way to open new window while clicking on link. ⌘ + , to open Safari preferences &gt; Tabs and one can see following options:

So ⌘ + ⌥ + click will open link in new window and makes it active. By adding ⇧ will not make new window active.
Also - what action you call minimizing? Because I can't reproduce any sudden window opening if window is minimized (⌘ + M)