Firefox @lemmy.ml boredsquirrel @slrpnk.net 21h ago

Votes Wanted: Proposal to allow 2 sidebars (one for tabs, one for extensions)

connect.mozilla.org Allow 2 Sidebars, one for tabs, one for extensions (or alternative)

I really like the sidebar, and I think vertical tabs are amazing, even though really new. I want to make a lot of extensions like "side view" that open a website as a sidebar popup, for example a dictionary. This would be really useful. But currently the vertical tabs are in the same sidebar, so a s...

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now published!

If you want, vote for my proposal to allow 2 sidebars in Firefox!

Firefox gets vertical tabs and a sidebar, cool huh? And you can open pages as sidebar popups, for example a small dictionary page, or a notepad or whatever else!

But when using vertical tabs and these site popups, it looks pretty ugly and pushes the main site to the edge.

Having a sidebar and a vertical tab bar would fix this.

Current state and mockup as images attached.

This is how it currently is: the sidebar and the vertical tab bar are the same. Placed extensions are unintuitive and popup windows (like Mozillas SideView or dedicated extensions) are next to the tabs, pushing the main website even further to the side

current state

This is how I would like it to be. A sidebar and a tab bar. Extensions go on the sidebar and the tab bar is just for tabs. The browser view is centered and clean.

(Tbh I would like tabs on the left but I am too lazy to edit the mockup)

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Tried creationg an account and still don't see it.
- Weird, still not published then. I can see it, which was not possible at first either so I assumed that it was online.
  
  Anyways will post again in a day or so
  
  I can see it when clicking in the link. And if I click on the thumbs up it asks me to log in. Muqt be published now I think
Upvoted it. The inability to use a sidebar (local LLM chat) on the other side with vertical tabs or at all when using sideberry together with their changed stance on selling user data made me move to Zen browser.
- Zen allows sidebar and tabs on other side?
  
  The simpler proposal would not make Sidebery work, because it is a sidebar popup and thus either that or the other things display.
  
  So that would need 2 real sidebars
  
  Yes, I have tabs on the left and sidebar opens on the right.
Found the Ultrawide monitor users lol. Voted for ya!

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