This is the official user feedback forum for Sidewise, the Google Chrome extension that brings a dockable sidebar and Tree Style Tabs to Chrome.
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BUG. not showing all windows after closing some.

Benedict Harris 8 years ago 0

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Sidewise needs a horizontal slider.

cartographer 8 years ago 0

Sidewise has a vertical scroll bar, inclusion of a horizontal slider would be very useful when there are a lot of tabs open.

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Sidewise often freezes entire browser while page is loading with spinning favicon

Anita Bigkoch 8 years ago 0

Sidewise often locks up my entire browser while a page is loading, page loads slow, can't scroll, change tabs, or use hangouts app without delay of 5-10 seconds or more. Issue does not occur with Sidewise disabled.


I've tried most configuration options on/off (including animations), but no change. I even tested some experimental chrome://flags options but still does it. Only other extension I'm using is uBlock Origin, which I tried toggling off too.


I can't quite narrow down exactly what pages trigger it but a lot of google pages do such as https://play.google.com/store/apps/ but it seems like Sidewise is causing some sort of locking/blocking of certain browser processes/threads while certain pages are loading.


Using single monitor, 1080p LinuxMint 17.3 Cinnamon (Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS)


Using latest stable Google Chrome Version 50.0.2661.75 (64-bit)


Output of Chrome://gpu

Graphics Feature Status

  • Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Flash: Hardware accelerated
  • Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
  • Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
  • Compositing: Hardware accelerated
  • Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
  • Native GpuMemoryBuffers: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
  • Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  • Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
  • WebGL: Hardware accelerated
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missing tabs on re-open of Chrome

Ben Jordan 8 years ago 0

Like many people have in other issues, I want to start by saying that the work you are doing here and the extension you've made are so important. Finding SideWise has filled a major need and you clearly understand how actual developers, researchers, and like-minded folks browse in the modern era.


My question: I've had to close and open Chrome a few times lately, due to various OS problems. When I've done that, the tabs listed in each window are not the same as when I closed the browser. Why do my tabs go missing after close / re-open?


I donated. If you are reading this and didn't; do.


Ben Jordan

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true docked panel v/s separate window (like vTabs)

russell-orig newman 8 years ago updated 8 years ago 0

Sidewise currently behaves like a separate window... :-(

Can you switch your sidewise UI to an actual docked side-panel (like vTabs?) i.e. chrome-extension://okpnlgbgcfchbicbhjmmhldhkbkfilce/help/help.html)

This is the one thing that's preventing me from moving to Chrome as my primary browser.

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Discarded Tabs

Zach Hunter 8 years ago updated by Christopher Bauerschmidt II 8 years ago 1

Chrome added tab discarding last year. This is great for memory, but maybe not so great for sidewise. When Chrome discards a tab as described here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding?hl=en it loses it's connection to Sidewise. If the sidewise tab is hibernated and brought back, it actually opens a duplicate tab, leaving tabs open in Chrome that Sidewise cannot control.

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Funding the future of Sidewise development

onguarde 8 years ago 0

This is still the best replace to "tree-style-tab" on Chrome.

I've personally donated to this project. And I would love to see it sustained.

Is there some financial model, we can work out besides a "donate" model?

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Answered

First Sidewise is the best thing since sliced bread. Stylistic quibble though for Mac. It's Mac style to be able to click just once to select an item before moving it, e.g. in Finder. Discombobulates first time Mac Sidewise users. :} We do get over it.

DJK 12 years ago updated by Joel Thornton 12 years ago 6

Mac style of operation question -- is reducing double clicking for Mac worth it when moving tree elements?

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Joel Thornton 12 years ago

Row-wise focus-on-hover and focus-on-scroll options have been implemented in the new 2012.10.18.1 release.

I am also keeping the "focus the sidebar when mouse moves over it" idea on my todo list for the time being; I made a brief attempt to implement this a little while ago and ran into some complications that I'll need to think through carefully before proceeding.

Hopefully either of the other two new focus options will ease the pain for Mac users somewhat, for now.

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Vimeo embedded videos not working?

Syd 11 years ago updated by Joel Thornton 11 years ago 2

After checking and rechecking with extensions sidewise turns out to be the culprit. I believe this extension is adding some extra parameters to the embedded video url. I checked the normal embedded code then compared the inspected code from the page the video was in itself between chrome w/o only sidewise, chrome w/ sidewise and chrome incognito. Only the chrome w/ sidewise added this extra bit "&api=1&player_id=vimeo-67494963" to the video url.


Can you confirm sidewise is doing this?


Answer
Joel Thornton 11 years ago

Fix is published. 

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Fixed, will release shortly.

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Confirmed. Can you please give me a URL where you are experiencing this problem?