Side View

Name: Side View
Rating: 4.0665 (361 reviews)
Author: Firefox

By: Firefox

Open a mobile view of a page in the sidebar

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Features & Capabilities

Side View is a Chrome extension designed to boost your productivity by allowing you to open a mobile view of any web page directly in your browser's sidebar. This feature enables seamless multitasking, such as watching YouTube videos while shopping online or keeping up with Twitter feeds while working on spreadsheets.

With Side View, multitasking becomes effortless. You can quickly send websites or links to your sidebar for simultaneous browsing and working, making your workflow more efficient and enjoyable. Experience a new way to browse with Side View's convenient mobile sidebar functionality.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Firefox

Daily users:

15,177 -72

Rating:

4.07

(361)

Version:

0.6.6956 Last updated: 2024-10-24

Version code:

5826956

Creation date:

2018-09-25

Risk:

Permissions:

Size:

193.04KB

Email:

ib*****@mozilla.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-03

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 592 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#37 in Tabs ▼ 1

#5 in size keyword 12

#5 in spreadsheet keyword 10

#6 in site keyword 58

#11 in mobile keyword 48

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Developed by:

Firefox

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/side-view/

Email:

ib*****@mozilla.com

Website:

https://github.com/mozilla/side-view/issues/new

User Reviews

Side View is a productivity-oriented Firefox add-on that opens links in a sidebar while keeping a main page visible. Reviews praise its core concept, ease of use, and strong tab-management potential, with multi-window workflows described as a game-changer. However, widespread mobile-rendering issues on sites like YouTube Music and Pinterest, missing UI features (address bar, direct open, shortcuts), and reliability concerns significantly temper its appeal.

Pros

Significantly boosts productivity and multitasking by keeping a main page while opening links in a sidebar.
Easy to use and generally useful.
Improves tab management and organization; easy switching between pages.
Highly flexible for multi-window workflows and complex setups (e.g., window snapping).

Cons

Forces mobile rendering on many sites (notably music.youtube.com), causing broken UI and playback.
Lacks essential UI/navigation features (no address bar, cannot open directly in side view without duplicating tabs; requests for shortcuts/tabs).
Inconsistent rendering and reliability across sites; reports of bugs and conflicts.
Pages are not kept loaded consistently, reducing usefulness in some workflows.

Recent reviews

Why this is not a default feature ?

by Fi*****, 2026-05-07

by S3*****, 2026-05-07

I rated two stars for to the widely reported issue of the extension forcing some websites to load in mobile view and breaking functionality, especially with YouTube Music. While waiting for an update from Mozilla (…) I’ve found a workaround: if you open the broken website *inside the sidebar* and request there the “Desktop Version” from the extension menu, it will load correctly even outside the sidebar. I’m writing this with the add-on installed and YouTube Music playing in the background.

by ma*****, 2026-03-27

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Is Side View Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Side View requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Side View has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Medium This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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