Reviews of Side View

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Total ratings

4.07 (Rating count: 362)

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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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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 4.10

All time rating average: 4.07

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8% (28)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-06-28	JA*****	Make your sidebar appears on mouse hover or fixed , put an icon pin on the top. Side view should not depend on sidebar , you must put it on left or right , when you click the part of the icon hide the slide view, , when you click the right part of the icon list the tabs , or just forget to list the tabs. Don't show at the top side view, put something on the tab . You are so close to win to wavebox in everything. Make an option to only show tabs from an specific group on the topside bar so the vertical side bar , can handlee all the groups, but you can have both.
Make your sidebar appears on mouse hover or fixed , put an icon pin on the top. Side view should not depend on sidebar , you must put it on left or right , when you click the part of the icon hide the slide view, , when you click the right part of the icon list the tabs , or just forget to list the tabs. Don't show at the top side view, put something on the tab . You are so close to win to wavebox in everything. Make an option to only show tabs from an specific group on the topside bar so the vertical side bar , can handlee all the groups, but you can have both.
2026-06-12	Ma*****	This is maybe one of the few reasons I am still on Firefox
This is maybe one of the few reasons I am still on Firefox
2026-05-07	Fi*****	Why this is not a default feature ?
Why this is not a default feature ?
2026-05-07	S3*****

2026-03-27	ma*****	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.
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.
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2026-03-22	di*****

2026-02-27	Am*****	The extension is useful for what it's worth, but unfortunately it caused me some issues, especially with YouTube Music (preventing playing in another tab, broken UI). I would love to see where this goes, but at the moment I cannot recommend it.
The extension is useful for what it's worth, but unfortunately it caused me some issues, especially with YouTube Music (preventing playing in another tab, broken UI). I would love to see where this goes, but at the moment I cannot recommend it.
2026-02-22	Fi*****