In Firefox 144, I can open vertical tabs and use Sidebery, but Firefox sidebar remains open on the side. I can remove it by setting always-show and hide-sidebar in config, but it reappears every time I restart.

Is there a way to permanently disable it?

  • highduc@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    I removed sideberry once vertical tabs came along. Any reason to use it over the built in way?

    • vort3@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      Yes, tabs in Sidebery are “tree style”, you can build them into trees and collapse/expand them, also unload, group, bookmark whole branches and trees.

      Vertical tabs are, well, just tabs stacked vertically. They are not nested, do not provide context, can’t be collapsed/expanded (or folded/unfolded, whatever you prefer). Sidebery just has many more features than just “woohoo you can see tabs vertically instead of horizontally” Firefox now provides.

  • shishka_b0b@lemmy.zip
    6·
    2 days ago

    Put the config settings in a user.js file and save it in the root directory of your Firefox profile. It should look something like this:

    user_pref("always-show.config.setting", false);
user_pref("hide-sidebar.config.setting", true);
      • shishka_b0b@lemmy.zip
        2·
        2 days ago

        I wasn’t sure what the actual preference name was so the code I gave you wasn’t accurate. This is exactly what you need in the user.js file:

        user_pref("sidebar.visibility", "hide-sidebar");

        It didn’t seem to work the first time I restarted Firefox even though the value for sidebar.visibility was changed correcty in about:config so I edited it back to always-show and then right back to hide-sidebar and now the sidebar remains hidden on startup

        Edit: typo

  • pop [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    You might want to try CSS mods.

    I don’t recall if they have exactly what you’re looking for (I prefer vanilla vertical tabs), but you can always make a request in their GitHub page. MrOtherGuy’s is one of the best Firefox CSS mods collections I’ve seen so far, and it’s regularly updated.

    Edit: I think it’s this one? hide_tabs_toolbar_v2.css

    Edit 1.5: Remember to have toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets set to true in about:config. (The GitHub page has more instructions.)

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    i always just dragged the default sidebar all the way to the left to shrink it into a single row. it doesn’t disappear but it at least stays out of the way