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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Found the Ultrawide monitor users lol. Voted for ya!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Yes, I have tabs on the left and sidebar opens on the right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idea Not Found

Tried creationg an account and still don't see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Yep, I'm seeing it now too. 👍