sidebar: add ability to load a web site into the sidebar

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sidebar: add ability to load a web site into the sidebar #22594

Open lazymonkey2 opened 2 years ago

lazymonkey2 commented 2 years ago

please add the ability to load a website into the sidebar. a custom button in the sidebar should be added to show that page in the sidebar.

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diracdeltas commented 2 years ago

do you mean load the page inside the sidebar, or simply add a button that opens the page in a normal tab? the sidebar currently has no security indicators, so those would need to be added before it's safe to load an arbitrary page inside the sidebar.

lazymonkey2 commented 2 years ago

I mean load the entire page inside the sidebar. There are some sites that I'd like to have visible in the sidebar of brave, like https://bookmarkos.com This is a screenshot of Bookmark OS loaded in side panel in firefox (I want to do the same in Brave)

NumDeP commented 2 years ago

@424344 in what other of aspect could this be beneficial other than that one screenshot example because I presume you'd have to eventually fully load the site on the sidebar?

lazymonkey2 commented 2 years ago

websites must be able to detect screen size, and load an appropriate version (ex the mobile version, not the full site version). maybe brave could implement an option to automatically request the mobile version (the user can choose to enable it or not). another website I'd like to load into sidebar is telegram. or other messengers too, or any website that I'd like to see in any moment while browsing in the normal pages.

UjCbFwtBayFM commented 2 years ago

I was disappointed Brave did not follow the same side-loading features on Edge or Vivaldi. I support this request.

metzger100 commented 2 years ago

Tell me if I should also open a new Issue(s) for that, because there are more requests in that post, than the one mentioned here in the Issue (mobile Website loading with Sidebar): I liked this Concept Image I saw on the Community site. Whishes of the User:

sidebar for mobile websites (like on Vivaldi)
split screen to work with several websites (like on Maxthon)
1-click pop-out video to save your time (like on Opera)
click tab to scroll top (like on Opera or Yandex)
ability to chose or pin images for a new tab (because some of them look awesome)

niutech commented 2 years ago

Please allow opening sidebar webapps in an overlay instead of a current tab, like in Opera:

Opera sidebar

Also please save their state upon opening, like in issue #23032.

Axenide commented 10 months ago

Any updates on this? I think this feature would be really useful.

owliatian commented 10 months ago

Any updates on this? I think this feature would be really useful.

It seems that related work is ongoing: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33533