the brave sidebar right now works like a second bookmarks bar for websites. when you click on a website on brave sidebar, it opens the full website just like the bookmarks bar.
what i am suggesting is that the sidebar opens a mobile view (or desktop view which should be interchangable)of the website. like the screen gets split between the main content/website you’re browsing and another one that you load in the sidebar.
ex. whatsapp, google keep, simple brave/google search etc.
reason to implement : this feature will be extremely helpful to users of wide requirements and users wont have to switch to another browser for the lack of features.
it will also be extremely convenient if you could add simple tools like calculator, timer, alarm clock etc. to it.
the sidebar feature can be made like vivaldi browser.
the tools in the sidebar like microsoft edge browser
Totally agree. I hoped the Brave sidebar would behave more like the Edge sidebar, where sites open in a side pane, allowing you to have two sites side by side—one in the main window and one in a narrower pane. Like you said, as it is now, it’s really just a vertical bookmarks bar.
Any news on this? I’d love to leave Edge but it’s currently the only Chromium-based browser I can find that will let me have vertical tabs and set up Raindrop in my sidebar.
I mentioned this on Twitter and got into a small discussion with Brendan and another brave employee. By the looks of it, it looks like they are working on it. Here is the tweet
This is indeed something that should have been even from the “first release” of the sidebar.
Almost all the other browsers that have it allow this.
Vivaldi, Edge, Opera…
it seems split view is never going to move over from Beta, and there’s been seemingly no movement on mobile view and making the sidebar actually useful.