No more separate windows on iTunes

Since the last updates iTunes seems to have lost - at least for me - one Until version 9.0 (I believe) it was possible to tear off any playlist in a separate window. This made shopping within the store very handy indeed, you could simply compare one or more playlist with anything in the shop. Iw think that would come in handy for any music lover who wants to compare versions of various compositions or composers, leading in many cases to purchasing items, which in turn would be good for sales for Apple, neb?
Alas, this tear-off stuff has gone. Now I can only switch between one playlist and the music shop. So, with a composer like Bach and thousands upon thousands of different performances to choose from or to complement one's collection I have to switch rather tediously between playlists and shop. And while we're at it, why is it so difficult to get albums with the composer's name added to album and artist?
But my original questions is much more important, for me anyway. Has anybody come up with a clever solution in which we may have tear-off playlists again?

Workaround - http://www.tuaw.com/2013/02/07/itunes-101-making-playlists-in-itunes-11/

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