Add option to toggle between autohiding and sitckied sidebar

[matru]

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I am refering about modification to chrome/autohide_sidebar.css.As a TST user for vertical tabs, it would be great to have the option to toggle between the two states, but I am not sure if there's anything to mimick the toggle through css only?

[MrOtherGuy]

You can't really do state toggles with CSS, but you can sort of achieve this if you use existing states. If you add this bit:

#sidebar-box[hidden]{
  display: flex;
  --uc-sidebar-width: var(--uc-sidebar-hover-width);
}

So now, when sidebar is supposed to be hidden, it's actually shown as "stickied" - and apparently works at least on first glance. The just move the sidebars-button into the toolbar it's found in toolbar customization palette if it's not in your toolbar already.

The downside is that then you can't have the sidebar to be hidden, and that if sidebar shows as stickied, then activating another sidebar with hotkey such as Ctrl+B will change sidebar to autohide-mode as well.

[matru]

This is perfect, I don't need the sidebar to be completely hidden. The only issue I see is that sometimes TST/other addons bug out, and I noticed (maybe subjectively) that if I completely disable and enable sidebars, the issues vanish.

Thank you!

[matru]

One thing that I noticed is that when opening a private tab, it opens non-sliding and blank, not even showing the current tabs. It easily fixes itself if I trigger the sidebar (shift-b).

[matru]

@MrOtherGuy Also, is there a way to get right click to work on the toggled tab? I am using Tree Style Tabs, so that would be very useful.

[MrOtherGuy]

I don't think that's possible - presumably because Firefox is going to think that sidebar is currently disabled - it's sort of weird that other functionality is working at all.