Nice idea, i really like it. But sadly it destroys the web layout for music.youtube.com and because of that it is not usable in the current state.
Pls Firefox, fix it. Until then i need to have it disabled all the time :(

The idea is great, but the implementation suffers a lot.

Other users say: For some reason it enforces music.youtube as mobile website

This is NOT limited to YT though. Russian e-shop ozon.ru is affected as well.

Whenevet i click any link in the shop user account it is open in mobile view instead of normal! I had to click RELOAD after every navigation.

I don't know what variables are set, cookies, or WebSQL or WebStorage or anything else - but probably the extension makes them polluted.

It is said, that "by default side view opens mobile rendering" but!

1. WHY is it rendered, wasting my traffic, memory and CPU, when the side view is CLOSED ?
2. WHY does it leaks its mobile state to the main tab?
3. WHY is it rendered BEFORE main tab, instead of AFTER ? Common sense says the side-view is a mobile ghost of desktop pages, then they should follow as wingmen, not lead as commanders!!! That would have also concealed (not fixed, but concealed at least) the leaking state error.

Had to disable it. Unsable. Pity, because the diea is great!

P.S. feature suggestion, the Opera (original one, not Chrome skin) had a "attached window" feature, guess it was CTRL+J by default. That side-by-side window was showing all the links in the current page, in a simple list, flat or idented. This could be a helpful and lightweight added mode to the extension. It arguably could have more use for generic users than heavy and intrusive mobile view.

A extensão era ótima, até o momento que foi acessar o music.youtube.com.
Estava com problema para ouvir minhas músicas, até que descobri que o problema é dessa extensão. Tive então que desinstalar.

i found that this extension have conflict with youtube music. When not focusing on youtube music tab, the player will automatically stopped immediately. Its only starting if the user is opening the youtube music tab. To fix that, you need to remove this extension

It's not as good as the split tab view in Microsoft Edge. The quality difference is night and day lol.

Its nice to read some page, but when you click in a link, the link opens on the other side of the screen.

I think this would be better if the tabs were independents. I mean, I could easily change the website by clicking on navbar.

Brave does it in a better way.

I love this extension but I absolutely need a keyboard shortcut! We have Ctrl+B and Ctrl+H but then I am forced to pick the mouse to click for the Side View. Also the page open in sideview do not work as regular pages, and every time you open Side View, the page start from top... would be nice if you are sending a page in Side View, the view being about the same 'height' of contents you reached in your tab.

Missing 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.

Google Meet links constantly cycles redirects

Seems 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.

The 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)

Please note: The Side View extension is not well compatible with another extension called Toggle Sidebery sidebar. 😅

Uma 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.

This 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.

Unfortunately there is issue with YTMusic UI when this plugin is activated. Some controls on the player panel not visible when this plugin is active

It'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

A great idea that has finally been properly realised. But, add the possibility to customise the hotkey 🙏

This 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.

Seems useful, but having the view limited to 10% of my screen width is just not useful in a lot of cases :(

nice feature, but why doesn't this add on get any updates

Sehr 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.

Hello, 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.

The 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)

Works 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.

Cool!! 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