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mozilla / side-view

side-view

An experiment with opening mobile views of pages in the sidebar

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
223GitHub stars
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What it is

An experiment with opening mobile views of pages in the sidebar

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-12-11 12:34:01 UTC to 2021-08-10 13:25:57 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I do this my having two windows open side-by-side (a 32” 4K monitor and a tiling window manager make this easy) and just drag a link from the left browser window over to the right. Not as nice as simply clicking, but usable. If you’re willing to change browsers if necessary, Firefox has a Side View [0] extension that offers some functionality, though it’s just an “experiment” that hasn’t been updated in years. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/side-view
In I closed a lot of browser tabs
> I fully expected to find it as a standalone extension, but if it exists, I couldn't find it. It can be installed from here: https://testpilot.firefox.com/files/side-view@mozilla.org/la... (From their GitHub page.[1]) Also note that the Test Pilot page [2] contains a summary of the data they collect. Most notably: > Side View does not collect any information about sites you visit. The data is does collect seems related to whether and how you use it - it is an experiment, after all. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/side-view [2] https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/side-view
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