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Using Sidebery Instead of Firefox Vertical Tabs (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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In Firefox 144, I can open vertical tabs and use Sidebery, but Firefox sidebar remains open on the side. I can remove it by setting always-show and hide-sidebar in config, but it reappears every time I restart.

Is there a way to permanently disable it?

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Put the config settings in a user.js file and save it in the root directory of your Firefox profile. It should look something like this:

user_pref("always-show.config.setting", false);
user_pref("hide-sidebar.config.setting", true);
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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thank you but it didn't work.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I wasn't sure what the actual preference name was so the code I gave you wasn't accurate. This is exactly what you need in the user.js file:

    user_pref("sidebar.visibility", "hide-sidebar");

    It didn't seem to work the first time I restarted Firefox even though the value for sidebar.visibility was changed correcty in about:config so I edited it back to always-show and then right back to hide-sidebar and now the sidebar remains hidden on startup

    Edit: typo

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