Sidebar.

[trekkiedane]

The one in your browser

-Do you use it?

I find it the most useful thing in a browser (after multiple tabs) and usually have it open in both my browser-windows showing either...

• History (Sorted by Last Visited) -for that very easy access to a page I didn't think I'd need once again so soon after closing it.
• Bookmarks.
• The ScrapBook add-on (listing pages saved to my system).
  or
• The Sage add-on -a 'lightweight' RSS feed aggregator.

Why this question, you might ask. Well, because I HATE it when I come to a site where some overzealous web-designer is forcing me to use not only the entirety of the browser window but also the entirety of my monitor to make any sense of the place.

Like newspapers and colour-printing; back when the technology to use colours in papers was relatively new, some papers began appearing more like comic-books than newsprint -for the simple reason that they could! -(Hated that as well ).

 

[RoJoHen]

My browser does not now, nor has it ever, had a sidebar. I'm honestly not sure if I've ever even seen this before.

 

[RobertVA]

What's really annoying are the sites that produce really W-I-D-E columns of text, making it difficult to keep track of which line to look at to continue reading. This can really get agrivating when the column is stretched beyond any reasonable window width by someone posting a photograph that violates a forum's maximum width rules.

 

[RandyS]

Sometimes. It's handy to have it right there, but since I can turn it on or off, I mostly leave it off.

 

[trekkiedane]

My browser does not now, nor has it ever, had a sidebar. I'm honestly not sure if I've ever even seen this before.

The long way to find mine would be by way of the menu-bar: [View] - [Sidebar]
But I usually use buttons in the Navigation-bar that I've put there for that reason.

What's really annoying are the sites that produce really W-I-D-E columns of text, making it difficult to keep track of which line to look at to continue reading.

This can really get agrivating when the column is stretched beyond any reasonable window width by someone posting a photograph that violates a forum's maximum width rules.

Which is the best reason to love the new layout of this place -imo- only the post with the large image gets stretched -love it!

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Didn't even know mine had one. So no, I don't use it.

 

[scotpens]

I use Firefox. The only time I use the sidebar is when I bring up the history. I don’t need it for anything else.

 

[Lumi]

Nope, I never look at history or anything. I rarely visit sites other than Facebook, Twitter, this one and really only one or two others... so I know them all by heart. Bookmarks shmookmarks.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I've never had a sidebar in a gazillion years online.

 

[trekkiedane]

Interesting!

Now I understand why some sites want to take over all of my monitor real estate -I'm the only one using it for things that differ from the actual content (however much of it might be ads) on the sites I visit

 

[IndyJones]

I mostly just use the favorites bar up top.

 

[Skywalker]

I don't like how the sidebar clutters up my window, so I don't use it.

 

[trekkiedane]

I mostly just use the favorites bar up top.

But that would mean your browser uses monitor real estate for displaying a menu bar -or what?

I mean, I have the navigation toolbar and the bookmarks toolbar taking up space on top.
And as many as three lines of tabs -I don't have space to waste on the menu bar as well

 

[RandyS]

I use Firefox. The only time I use the sidebar is when I bring up the history. I don’t need it for anything else.

I also use Firefox. Did you know you can call up your history in it's own window? Just wondering.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

I used it once. Yuck.

I don't like how the sidebar clutters up my window, so I don't use it.

Same here.

 

[captcalhoun]

i just click on the favourites thingy to open favourites or history in IE and then whiz off to the next site and it closes automagically.

 

[auntiehill]

I hate the sidebar. I NEVER use it.

 

[1001001]

"I'm...not familiar with the type of thing I'm seeing..."

 

[Methos]

i voted no, but it's more of a yes really lol

it's complicated, i don't use the 'sidebar' as you describe and post here, i use the 'sidebar' as a chat interface lol

but then i'm using quite a heavily customized setup here, so i guess mine will be a bit different from everyone elses lol

M

 

[trekkiedane]

^I'd say that was a definite yes -in the sense that you have a sidebar in your browser and that you use it often to always.


How about the sidebar in the window you use to navigate your system?

I'm curious now: do those of you that don't use a sidebar in a browser also not use a sidebar when browsing through your folders and files?