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An experiment with opening mobile views of pages in the sidebar
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Is this Dead? #444

Open snoweuph opened 2 years ago

snoweuph commented 2 years ago

the title is saying everything: is this project dead?

I really like this project, but there are 2 major problems I have with this extension: No extension support inside of the sideview, and the limited size of a sideview this supports, i know some people who swiched to vivaldi, becuase they need this feature on their ultrawide monitor

bershanskiy commented 1 year ago

@snoweuph This extension was part of Firefox Test Pilot program, which was shut down on January 22nd, 2019. This extension is still available on Firefox Addons, but is no longer developed.

Which extensions do you want to use with Firefox Side View? I'm one of developers of Dark Reader and currently we are contemplating whether we want to support Firefox Side View or not. We are looking for feedback here: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/discussions/10105

snoweuph commented 1 year ago

Im missing UBlock, Sponsorblock and MalSync support inside of SideView

snoweuph commented 1 year ago

but the Simple awnser to my question is yes it seemes. then maybe this repo should get archived?

bershanskiy commented 1 year ago

Could you please clarify which extensions work for you and which don't? I believe UBlock Origin and SponsorBlock should work in Side View (based on what I know a bit about their internals). If they do not, I can look into fixing them, assuming API permits.

For example, currently, I'm working on Dark Reader in Side View, but due to limitations of Firefox API, Dark Reader might not be able to track the nesting of frames within Side View and so its ON/OFF state might work slightly differently in iframe within Side View and an iframe within a regular tab.

snoweuph commented 1 year ago

Ublock doesnt work for me, I get Adds in there

snoweuph commented 1 year ago

I mean youtube adds

snoweuph commented 1 year ago

but sposoblock works flawlessley inthere

lfr commented 1 year ago

Dark Reader doesn't work properly, for instance when globally disabled it remains enabled in Side-View:

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It's not just the global setting that doesn't work in Side-View, if I set a specific setting for Amazon.com pages (like dimmed), Side-View ignores it:

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It's as if Side-View ignored extension settings or reads extension settings from some sort of cache that doesn't get updated.

bershanskiy commented 1 year ago

@lfr

Dark Reader doesn't work properly

Yes, this is a known issue. The upcoming Dark Reader 4.9.59 will fix it by disabling Dark Reader in Firefox Sidebar. Dark Reader 4.9.60 which will release some time next month will include proper support for Sidebars. See #10105 for details.

Edit: correct URL.

slimeyena commented 1 year ago

Not an issue, just wanted somewhere to give thanks for developing this add-on. I hope it lasts, this kind of thing blew me away in vivaldi but afaik this is the only option for firefox. It's so elegantly implemented. thanks! Can't believe mozilla haven't officially implemented this yet

Anutrix commented 3 weeks ago

Seems like this is dead. Sites like Google Meet are breaking with obvious indication that it's due to a Mozilla addon: https://github.com/mozilla/side-view/issues/455. Led to long effort of almost disabling every addon and eventual finding https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/700930.

@ctbmozilla-admin Please archive this and mark it deprecated on addons.mozilla.org. Not sure if you are right person to ping(but you were only name with mozilla and admin in tag).