diff --git a/src/logic/Window.swift b/src/logic/Window.swift
index 2d775490..2da564cf 100644
--- a/src/logic/Window.swift
+++ b/src/logic/Window.swift
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ class Window {
     var creationOrder = Int.zero
     var title: String!
     var thumbnail: NSImage?
-    var thumbnailFullSize: NSSize?
     var icon: NSImage? { get { application.icon } }
     var shouldShowTheUser = true
     var isTabbed: Bool = false
@@ -99,7 +98,6 @@ class Window {
 
     func refreshThumbnail(_ screenshot: NSImage?) {
         thumbnail = screenshot
-        thumbnailFullSize = screenshot?.size
         if App.app.appIsBeingUsed && shouldShowTheUser {
             if let index = (Windows.list.firstIndex { $0.cgWindowId == cgWindowId }) {
                 let view = ThumbnailsView.recycledViews[index]
@@ -113,13 +111,6 @@ class Window {
         }
     }
 
-    func getPreview() -> (NSImage, NSSize)? {
-        if let thumbnail = thumbnail, let thumbnailFullSize = thumbnailFullSize {
-            return (thumbnail, thumbnailFullSize)
-        }
-        return nil
-    }
-
     func canBeClosed() -> Bool {
         return !isWindowlessApp
     }
diff --git a/src/logic/Windows.swift b/src/logic/Windows.swift
index cdce3e1d..9629ab37 100644
--- a/src/logic/Windows.swift
+++ b/src/logic/Windows.swift
@@ -147,20 +147,17 @@ class Windows {
     }
 
     static func previewFocusedWindowIfNeeded() {
-        guard
-            Preferences.previewFocusedWindow,
-            !Preferences.onlyShowApplications(),
-            App.app.appIsBeingUsed && App.app.thumbnailsPanel.isKeyWindow,
-            let window = focusedWindow(),
-            let id = window.cgWindowId,
-            let (preview, previewSize) = window.getPreview(),
-            let position = window.position,
-            let size = window.size
-        else {
+        if Preferences.previewFocusedWindow && !Preferences.onlyShowApplications()
+                   && App.app.appIsBeingUsed && App.app.thumbnailsPanel.isKeyWindow,
+           let window = focusedWindow(),
+           let id = window.cgWindowId,
+           let thumbnail = window.thumbnail,
+           let position = window.position,
+           let size = window.size {
+            App.app.previewPanel.show(id, thumbnail, position, size)
+        } else {
             App.app.previewPanel.orderOut(nil)
-            return
         }
-        App.app.previewPanel.show(id, preview, previewSize, position, size)
     }
 
     static func voiceOverWindow(_ windowIndex: Int = focusedWindowIndex) {
diff --git a/src/ui/main-window/PreviewPanel.swift b/src/ui/main-window/PreviewPanel.swift
index ddd9b30a..4cc96be2 100644
--- a/src/ui/main-window/PreviewPanel.swift
+++ b/src/ui/main-window/PreviewPanel.swift
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ class PreviewPanel: NSPanel {
     private let borderView = BorderView()
     private var currentId: CGWindowID?
 
+    /// this allows the window to be above the menubar when its origin.y is set to 0
+    override func constrainFrameRect(_ frameRect: NSRect, to screen: NSScreen?) -> NSRect {
+        frameRect
+    }
+
     convenience init() {
         self.init(contentRect: .zero, styleMask: [.nonactivatingPanel, .titled, .fullSizeContentView], backing: .buffered, defer: false)
         isFloatingPanel = true
@@ -18,17 +23,14 @@ class PreviewPanel: NSPanel {
         previewView.addSubview(borderView)
         // triggering AltTab before or during Space transition animation brings the window on the Space post-transition
         collectionBehavior = .canJoinAllSpaces
-        // 2nd highest level possible; this allows the app to go on top of context menus
-        // highest level is .screenSaver but makes drag and drop on top the main window impossible
-        level = .popUpMenu
         // helps filter out this window from the thumbnails
         setAccessibilitySubrole(.unknown)
     }
 
-    func show(_ id: CGWindowID, _ preview: NSImage, _ previewSize: NSSize, _ position: CGPoint, _ size: CGSize) {
+    func show(_ id: CGWindowID, _ preview: NSImage, _ position: CGPoint, _ size: CGSize) {
         if id != currentId  {
             previewView.image = preview
-            previewView.image!.size = previewSize
+            previewView.image!.size = size
             var frame = NSRect(origin: position, size: size)
             // Flip Y coordinate from Quartz (0,0 at bottom-left) to Cocoa coordinates (0,0 at top-left)
             // Always use the primary screen as reference since all coordinates are relative to it
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ class PreviewPanel: NSPanel {
             // 2. Select a window in the switcher that is on the same monitor as the thumbnails panel, and whose position overlaps with the thumbnails panel
             // 3. For a single frame, the preview of the newly selected window can appear above the thumbnails panel before going back underneath it
             // Simply using order(.below) is not sufficient to prevent this brief flicker. We explicitly set the preview panel's window level to be one below the thumbnails panel
-            App.app.previewPanel.level = NSWindow.Level(rawValue: App.app.previewPanel.level.rawValue - 1)
+            App.app.previewPanel.level = NSWindow.Level(rawValue: App.app.thumbnailsPanel.level.rawValue - 1)
         }
     }
 }