Firefox Sidebar (w/ Dynamic Indentation)

As GitHub is now officially just a Microsoft Copilot feeder product instead of a universal, global, code repository, we have migrated this project to Codeberg, a non-profit.

While we understand that companies and organizations inevitably use our public code anywhere to seed their models, we would prefer not directly helping the organizations do it on the platform of their choosing, and make them work just a smidge harder to get it. As GH also hosts the most number of private repositories, there is an ethical issue with allowing any of our code reside here, public or not.

:: All new releases will be found here ::

TO SET YOUR NEW ORIGIN URL, USE THE FOLLOWING COMMAND:

git remote set-url origin https://codeberg.org/macleod/FirefoxSidebar.git

Previous readme with updated (git) instructions:

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Firefox Sidebar (w/ Dynamic Indentation)

Features:

• Longest lasting, oldest, and possibly first, major dynamic Firefox sidebar w/ regular updates.
• Dynamic Indentation: Unfurls tab names and indentations on hover of the sidebar, saving you space while you browse.
• Native Vertical Tabs: Now built on top of the native Firefox vertical tab system.
• Tree style tabs: Tree style tab support by using Sidebery & TreeStyleTabs (legacy)
• Automatic themes: Automatically matches your Firefox theme colors!
• Custom theming: Custom theme configuration using Sidebery, or any other
• Tab Power Features: Tab groups and tab containers (both with visual identifiers), bookmarks, history, and more.
• Pinned Tabs: Pinned tabs stay at the top (right click to close)
• Sidebar Switching: switch between different sidebars by hovering over the switcher at the bottom.
• Cross-Platform: Should work on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Note as of 2025.02.09: This is now using (and replaces!) the new built in Firefox 134+ vertical tabs, make sure you have updated. If you are still on an older version of Firefox, please check the releases page for the older versions.

Instructions (guide/setup)

The instructions may seem like quite a lot, but the entire proces takes less than a few minutes and does not require you to be overly technical. Most guides will entirely skip the first three main steps and expect you to know what you are doing, I don't, so I hope this helps as much as possible.

1. Activate vertical tabs and install sidebery:

   1. Right click on any open space on the tab bar
   2. Select "Turn on vertical tabs"
   3. Install Sidebery from Firefox Addons

2. Allow modifying your Firefox appearance:

   1. In Firefox navigate to about:config in your address bar
   2. Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
   3. Double click or manually change this to true

3. Add the FirefoxSidebar settings:

   1. Navigate to (about:profiles)in your address bar
   2. Click on the open root folder button for your current profile
   3. Open this folder location in your terminal
   4. Clone this repo with the following command: git clone https://codeberg.org/dxfiers/FirefoxSidebar "chrome"
      1. You may need to install git for this to work -> Git Downloads
      2. If installing git is not possible, then download the latest Source Code (zip) files from Releases, create a folder called chrome inside your current profile, unzip and move the files into that folder.

4. Load the custom Sidebery theme and settings (optional, suggested!):

   1. Navigate to Sidebery settings (Right click on the Sidebery extension icon > "Open Settings")
   2. Click on "Help" in the sidebar (Settings > Help)
   3. Click on "Import addon data"
   4. Select and load the sidebery-data.json file located in your 'chrome' folder from step 3.

5. Restart Firefox, and click on the 'Sidebery' extension, everything should now be working as expected.

FAQ

Sidebery Themes

If you dislike any of the theme presets for dark or light themes, or you have a particular color scheme in mind then navigate to Sidebery Settings > Style Editor (found at the end of the settings sidebar).

Custom Modifications

Add any additional Firefox modifications into custom.css, these will not be overwritten on future sidebar updates (when using git pull)

Visit userchrome.org if you have any questions.

TreeStyleTabs (Legacy)

Either add the firefox/treestyletabs.css to your TST addon preferences or import the treestyletabs-*.json preferences to your TST addon.

This is a legacy support theme and not often changed.

Updates

Release notes have migrated to here.