Two Firefox Sidebar Tweaks

I’m not a huge fan of the sidebar either, but I like these kinda tweaks - keep ‘em coming!

install sage, allinone sidebar, and mr tech’s local install, and you’ll be a sidebar convert. i almost guarantee it.

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I’ve tried All-in-One Sidebar - wasn’t too impressed.
As for Sage, I’ve switched to Bloglines ages ago because I need to access my feeds from several PCs.

bloglines is very good. it was the first i used, then i switched to netvibes. both are excellent for someone with your needs, ace. tried google reader and found it awful.

sage is simple, flawless, unobtrusive, instantly accessible, intuitive, easily configurable and i highly recommend it for anyone whose computing circumstances permit.

@archer: Agreed, on all counts. (Though I have yet to try NetVibes.)

Please, fix

#browser { -moz-box-direction: reverse;}

you are right, fixed it. Thanks rubzn

martin, your site just keeps getting better. special props to the new look. clean, elegant, classy.

Hi. When I open bookmark toolbar to delete a website, the toolbar closes so i have to reopen it each time to delete 1 website instead of it staying open and say I want to delete 10 websites before i decide i’m done using the sidebar thingy. Does anyone know a tweak to keep the boomark toolbar open to be able to delete multiple websites without having to have to reopen it for each site? Thanks so much.

@Ashley: You could the Bookmarks Manager, either as a new window via Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks, or in the sidebar via CTRL+B.

Wow Ace_NoOne, thanks so much =) xoxoxox

Target=”_search” in a link in Firefox’s main window will load any content into the Firefox sidebar.

In the upper-right corner of the Firefox sidebar is an X to close it. Is there a JavaSript that will close it in a link?

for example

javascript:closesidebar()

Monty,

Does your Target= trick also work in reverse? For instance, I am trying to have the results of a search open in the main window. AKA I never want the sidebar to change, only use it as a launcher of sorts…

In any case, check out: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:Sidebar

Per their site you should be able to open/close/toggle it via:

/**
* Opens or closes the sidebar identified by commandID.
*
* @param commandID a string identifying the sidebar to toggle; see the
* note below. (Optional if a sidebar is already open.)
* @param forceOpen boolean indicating whether the sidebar should be
* opened regardless of it’s current state (optional).
* @note
* We expect to find a xul:broadcaster element with the specified ID.
* The following attributes on that element may be used and/or modified:
* - id (required) the string to match commandID. The convention
* is to use this naming scheme: ‘viewSidebar’.
* - sidebarurl (required) specifies the URL to load in this sidebar.
* - sidebartitle or label (in that order) specify the title to
* display on the sidebar.
* - checked indicates whether the sidebar is currently displayed.
* Note that toggleSidebar updates this attribute when
* it changes the sidebar’s visibility.
* - group this attribute must be set to “sidebar”.
*/
function toggleSidebar(commandID, forceOpen) {