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  • Propheticus@lemmy.ziptoFirefox@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    10 months ago

    Yup dumdum, I’ve tried to explain that Zen also has this expanding ‘thing’, but unlike with Firefox it can be placed opposite side of the vertical tabs. If you for instance press Ctrl+B and you get the expanding thing (sidebar) with bookmarks. Just like in Firefox it expands and reduces webpage space. The overlay is something else, called the web panel. Something Zen introduced which is additional to the sidebar and not a replacement of it. I’ve even taken the time to show it in a screenshot, but apparently that makes me a smartass.





  • A popup is overlay / in front of your viewport or UI, the sidebar is not in front of it. If what you see is (like a) popup, you’re talking about the web panel, which a different concept Zen added. Indeed in Firefox the vertical tabs are part of the sidebar and thus they can’t be move independently. In Zen, the vertical tabs are NOT part of the sidebar, and thus you can move the sidebar to the right while the tabs remain on the left.


  • It’s configurable from the sidebar dropdown menu, e.g. when opening your bookmarks (Ctrl+B): dropdown menu with sidebar options

    But you can also use this about:config setting: sidebar.position_start set to false

    Again you keep calling it a popup, but it really isn’t. It does not pop up or overlay the browser viewport, it sits on the right and pushes the viewport left reducing its width.