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Opening or moving tab to "new window" opens a new window, but with sidebery closed
Steps to reproduce
- Open Firefox in a new profile
- Install Sidebery
- open some tabs
- right click a tab and move to 'new window'
Actual behavior
New window opens with that tab, but sidebery sidebar is closed
Expected behavior
Sidebery should remain open in the new tab
System
Windows 11
Firefox version
1.28 and 1.29beta and nightly
Sidebery version
5.2.0
Logs
no messages seem to appear.
Adding fuel to this fire. I also have this issue on both Windows 11 and Arch Linux.
This can be done with a workaround. Here's how I did it -
You need to modify your xulstore.json file within your profile to read in the package id of Sidebery as an extension to load when a new window is opened.
Go to about:support in your browser.
- Scroll down to the Add-ons section and make note of the ID value for the Sidebery extension.
- Click on "Open Folder" in the Profile Folder value near the top to find the xulstore.json file. Edit this in any text editor.
- After
"main-window:{...},add"sidebar-box":{"sidebarcommand":"_XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX_-sidebar-action","style":"order: 1; width: 238px;","checked":"true"},Replace the GUID of Xs here with the ID value of your Sidebery extension, keeping the underscore characters at start and end. And modify the width value as required.
Restart Firefox.
Hope that helps!
@Squire4Hire Thanks, this works! Is it possible to have the same settings when opening in a new private window (ctrl+shift+p)? The setting persists when I open the new private window through the dock icon, but not through the keyboard shortcut.
@jeb12301 - xulstore.json is used for persistent settings related to the UI and is not utilized or modified during a private window session, rendering this approach ineffective. As far as I'm aware, there is no way to retain these settings in a private window session accordingly. Your best approach might be to toggle Containers with 'F1' after a private window has been opened.
