Make Sidebery open on new windows

[jeb12301]

Whenever I open firefox for a new workspace I need to open the sidebery sidebar with CTRL+E. This isn't for new windows when firefox is active. I was wondering if there was a simple fix for this issue?

[Naezr]

It's not clear what workspaces you're talking about. What OS are you using? Do you have previous tabs opening on startup enabled?

[jeb12301]

Using hyprland so it basically starts up firefox separately each time I open it. Works similarly to if I were to open the new instance through cli.

[Naezr]

It actually works exactly the same way for me as well. I am using Fedora 40 with GNOME. When opening Firefox via the icon in the menu, or when creating a new window using Firefox itself (ctrl + N or ui button) Sidebery opens automatically. However, if I type flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox in the terminal, Sidebery does not open automatically in the created Firefox window.

In my experience, I have found that the same command in the .desktop file of menu icon, and in terminal behaves differently.

Also, when dragging a tab from Sidebery outside the window, the sidebar also doesn't open automatically in the new window. There might be some relation between all of this, but I'm not sure

[jeb12301]

For each new instance from terminal, view -> sidebar -> sidebery is turned off. I'll try asking on the sidebery github but they mentioned something about how this was something to do with firefox.

[Naezr]

I think this problem applies not only to Sidebery, but to any extensions that can be opened in the sidebar. I created a clean Firefox profile, and checked the behavior by installing Sidebery, Tab Center Reborn and Bitwarden. Regardless of the extension open in Sidebar, it behaves the same way: the Sidebar opens automatically when you launch Firefox via the icon and when you press ctrl + n. However, the sidebar does not open automatically when launched from the command line