26 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Twisthem488, 5 months agoMissing a lot of features that feel required. I'm coming from Vivaldi and their native "Web Panels" which is how I expected this to operate.
There should be the ability to go forward/back within the sideview. Either with mouse buttons, gestures, or with dedication navigation buttons in the panel. As is, I'll open a tech blog pick out an article and then have to navigate back to the homepage and find where I was in the feed again, sometimes scrolling through multiple pages since I cant just go back.
It should also persist like an open tab. I often close and reopen it and don't want to load the page each time. Especially if I am using something like ChatGPT to have an ongoing conversation. I either need to keep the side view open the entire time even If i don't need it right then, or re-navigate to the previous conversation (which if thankfully remembers)
I would also like a keyboard shortcut to open the sideview. Perhaps there is one that I haven't found documented. It would be nice to be able to open it with gestures (I'm using Gesturefy)
I would also prefer that I could just add a site from within the sideview and save it there. Instead you have to open it in a tab, and then use the sideview button to also open it in sideview, and once you've done that you can open your 3 most recent pages. I have 5 or 6 pages I would like to quickly open in sideview, but you cant currently do that.
Seems like a good start, but is missing a lot of functionality. - Rated 3 out of 5by Chris Hayes, 9 months agoSeems like a neat idea; however, it's clunky for anyone that puts their tabs in the sidebar since you can only show one or the other at a time, not both.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17701418, 9 months agoThe idea is great, and one of the reasons I still enjoy another Browser VERY much for having this feature. But as it is implemented right now, the Side View is far too limited. Not being able to increase the width or having more than just one side view are dealbreakers (so is the "Side View" header, it wastes space)
- Rated 3 out of 5by zhuangxiaosen, 10 months agoPlease note: The Side View extension is not well compatible with another extension called Toggle Sidebery sidebar. 😅
- Rated 3 out of 5by BrunoFortunatto, a year agoUma função boa mas parece que foi abandonada pela Mozilla! Última atualização a cinco anos! Seria bom uma atualização que redirecionasse a barra lateral automaticamente para um tamanho compatível com a leitura! Outra atualização seria ao clicar sobre o ícone do Side View, ele fechasse automaticamente, retornando para a função anterior na barra.
- Rated 3 out of 5by acabres, a year agoThis is a great idea but it needs some fixing because it seems to have problems and it needs to be available in (Firefox) natively just like it's available in (Microsoft Edge) and needs to function the same way exactly putting it in the sidebar is actually not how it's supposed to function.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Vlad, a year agoUnfortunately there is issue with YTMusic UI when this plugin is activated. Some controls on the player panel not visible when this plugin is active
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rodrigo, a year agoIt's very sad this plugin was abandoned 5 years ago, it had a lot of potential. Specially nowadays as other browsers like Vivaldi and Arc come with very powerful multitasking tools.
If at some point, Firefox decides to give support to this plugin again, two suggestions I think would help a lot:
1. Be able to open the side view with a hotkey
2. Be able to navigate (through URLs) in the side view, instead of being stuck in the page you opened it - Rated 3 out of 5by Роман Деев, 2 years agoA great idea that has finally been properly realised. But, add the possibility to customise the hotkey 🙏
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 11954772, 2 years agoThis add-on did the trick for me appart the wobbly formatting and mostly the lack of a short-key to open in the splitted pane (for example to see the lyrics of a song from a search engine). As I was frustrated about the width's limitation I searched on the issue area of the project homepage and I found the issue #420 which gives a workaround to resize.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14754883, 2 years agoSeems useful, but having the view limited to 10% of my screen width is just not useful in a lot of cases :(
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15032581, 2 years agoSehr gute Idee aber noch ziemlich schwach auf der Brust. Wenn ich mir andere Browser angucke machen die sowas bereits out-of-the-box. Hier ist viel Potenzial drin.
- Rated 3 out of 5by schmox, 3 years agoHello, since this extension didn't receive an update in three years, I assume it's not longer maintained. I will still give my thoughts and wishes for the future.
The extension works technically flawless and is great to check the mobile look of a website quickly. But it's not really working as a separate browser instance, because links don't open in the sidebar, but as a normal tab. The Vivaldi browser has a proper surfing experience in it's side panel and I love it for quickly checking something on Wikipedia and not having to open a whole new tab for it.
So here's what I would love to see:
1. Some kind of bookmarking/homepage capability, so I can open my favourite side bar pages quickly.
2. Links opening within the side bar, not as a tab.
I know this is probably not going to happen, but at least I can give my feedback on it. The extension is still a great idea and works for what it is at the moment. - Rated 3 out of 5by grumpy, 4 years agoThe icon is misleading. I thought it was a means to have a split view, which I would love. By showing the '2nd' window in a side view you cannot compare the two views, since for most sites the phone interface kicks in, due to the prevalent responsive design. (a developer feature - not a user feature - which is quite confusing to most users)
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13874864, 5 years agoWorks well, but could use a button to unload the current site.
Also, pls unlock the max sidebar width.
For ppl with ultrawide monitors that could be a nice alternative to multiple FF winows.
I'd change my rating to 6/5 immediately. - Rated 3 out of 5by josemazcorro, 5 years agoCool!! I normally use two web-browser side by side... I still think is better option, but sometimes sites get really small when I squeeze the windows, so I switch to mobile view, but pitifully there is no extension to make this by tab and I have to constantly switch the views. Your extension could be a solution for me, if it just had an address bar.. hehe... but I guess other people are looking to put more info in one screen. Anyways it seem great! thanks man
- Rated 3 out of 5by Matt GD, 5 years agoGreat and useful addon, I just wish we could increase to 50% the width of the side view and could go back or forward on the current page as well as freely browse to different websites which are not necessarily in the current tabs
- Rated 3 out of 5by Borszczuk, 5 years agoIt seems Javascript does not really like running in sidebar as any page I tried have JS not working. Also cookies are not preserved which makes pages asking for l/p on each click. Also FF sidebar which this plugin uses has pretty narrow max width. This can luckily be "fixed" and make it resize without limits by installing https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx and enable "./css/generalui/sidebar_width_unrestricted.css" (search for "sidebar" in "userChrome.css" and uncomment). Tested with FF 73.
- Rated 3 out of 5by rn_, 5 years agocould be better if this could be like what tile tabs used to be before quantum also if i could put it at the bottom
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15495280, 5 years agoLove the concept, but really needs to expand up to 50% in order to be useful. Also, clinking links in the sidebar bar page will actually change the main page, which took some time to wrap my head around. Hope it goes native!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Paul Hook, 5 years agoHandy but limited. Allowing wider view (50% instead of 25% of window) would help a lot. Too many web pages are not optimized for mobile view and are not readable when limited to 25% side bar (PDFs opened in browsers, for example). That's available with Tile Tabs WE, but it would be nice to have in Side View to not have to guess how a particular page is going to behave, choose which extension to use, test it, find it's not the right choice, close, choose the other one, etc.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15148469, 6 years agoOkay But when wanting to have Youtube it misses a portion of the video it will not fit, please do something about this for max stars.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14722682, 6 years agoUseful but I can't expand it to more than about 25% of my Mac Powerbook screen. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong.