Sidebars Coming to Google Chrome Soon

by Dinu

When the beta version of Chromium based Flock was released last month, the Chromium discuss groups saw many people requesting Flocklike sidebar options on Chrome as well. Well, looks like we have some good news here.

chrome news  Sidebars Coming to Google Chrome Soon

Google Chrome is planning to add a sidebar API which will in turn give us more extensions with those sidebars. Expect  a twitter extension which will show your timeiline in a sidebar !

The proposed API allows Chrome extensions to access and control Sidebar – per-tab split-pane HTML container to the left (to the right in RTL environment) of the main page content with the ability to resize horizontally. Currently implemented under –enable-experimental-extension-apis flag.

Official documentation on this API is available here. I will keep you all informed, when new extensions are available with this feature built in, stay tuned.
PhistucK July 7, 2010 at 9:00 am

But… the image you have in the post is of Side Tabs… not of the sidebar extension API.

chrome story July 7, 2010 at 1:39 pm

hmm, dont think so, I got this from the sidebar API documentation … I think this is correct !

PhistucK July 8, 2010 at 3:43 pm

Start Chrome with –enable-vertical-tabs, right click on one of the tabs and check “Use side tabs”.

chrome story July 8, 2010 at 3:45 pm

sidebars and side tabs are different .. correct ?

PhistucK July 8, 2010 at 4:06 pm

Sorry! you are correct.

chrome story July 8, 2010 at 4:07 pm

np :D you got me confused though !

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