To keep the UI 'clean', we should probably include an options page that allows this (and other future things) to be disabled if/as the user desires. This could be at the feature level (eg. this whole thing), as well as at the sub-feature level (eg. if I never want to do things with tabs 'to the left', i could hide those options)
As described in #4:
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