Hide Reddit Sidebar

Hide Reddit Sidebar

Provides a button in the omnibar to hide the Reddit sidebar when browsing a subreddit. Specifically, any URL that matches "…

What is Hide Reddit Sidebar?
Hide Reddit Sidebar is a Chrome extension that provides a button to hide the Reddit sidebar when browsing a subreddit, ensuring nested comments are not squished in a thin window. The sidebar will remain visible on the Reddit homepage and some custom subreddit styles may prevent the sidebar from being hidden.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 212 ▼ -2
Rating: 4.63 (8)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2015-12-09)
Creation date: 2015-12-08
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • declarativeContent
  • activeTab
Size: 16.39K
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Summary

Provides a button in the omnibar to hide the Reddit sidebar when browsing a subreddit.

Specifically, any URL that matches " reddit.com/r/* "

I created this so that nested comments would not squish when Reddit is open in a thin window.

The sidebar will NOT be hidden on the Reddit homepage, because this sidebar does not interfere with Redditing.

Some custom subreddit styles will stop the sidebar from being hidden. If you are using RES, you can solve this problem by unchecking 'Use subreddit style' in the sidebar.

User reviews
This seems to do exactly what I needed it to, thank you!

Works with old.reddit subreddit posts. Not on your main feed though. If you add the lines "http://www.reddit.com/*", "https://www.reddit.com/*", "http://np.reddit.com/*", "https://np.reddit.com/*", "https://old.reddit.com/*", "http://old.reddit.com/*" To the matches section it would be perfect.
by Nathan Guy Nathan Guy, 2018-08-07

Perfection. I would like it to work on the homepage though.
by R H R H, 2018-07-08
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Safety
Risk impact

Hide Reddit Sidebar is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hide Reddit Sidebar has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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