# Sidebar for Facebook™

> Sidebar for Facebook™ brings Facebook™ right into your Firefox. Get notifications, status and photos from Facebook™ instantly.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/facebook-sidebar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/facebook-sidebar)

## Overview

- **ID:** `facebook-sidebar`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Baris Derin
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 80
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Rating:** 2.40 / 5 (15 ratings)
- **Version:** 63.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2013-02-15
- **Size:** 245 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/facebook-sidebar/)

## Description

**Sidebar for Facebook™** integrates Facebook™ directly into your Firefox sidebar. This extension allows you to receive notifications, view statuses, browse photos, and access favorites, groups, apps, and friends without leaving your current web experience. Simply open the sidebar via the Firefox menu and log in to Facebook™ to get started. A future update will include a keyboard shortcut for even quicker access. Note that Sidebar for Facebook™ is an independent tool and is not officially affiliated with Facebook™ or Facebook Inc.

## Rankings

- #13,113 — Overall
- #40 — facebook
- #75 — sidebar
- #77 — deepseek sidebar
- #191 — status
- #192 — ebay

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextualIdentities`
- `cookies`
- `tabs`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*`
- `*.barisderin.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/facebook-sidebar)