# Side View

> Open a mobile view of a page in the sidebar

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/side-view](https://chrome-stats.com/d/side-view)

## Overview

- **ID:** `side-view`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Firefox
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 14,836
- **Weekly downloads:** 143
- **Rating:** 4.06 / 5 (364 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.6956
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-24
- **First published:** 2018-09-25
- **Size:** 193 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/side-view/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/mozilla/side-view/issues/new](https://github.com/mozilla/side-view/issues/new)

## Description

**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.

## Rankings

- #618 — Overall
- #36 — Tabs
- #5 — site
- #5 — spreadsheet
- #7 — size
- #12 — mobile

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `bookmarks`
- `management`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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 medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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.

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