Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.
Returns a sidebar object which contains several methods for registering add-ons with the browser.
Methods
The sidebar object returned has the following methods:
| Method | Description (SeaMonkey) | Description (Firefox) |
|---|---|---|
addPanel(title, contentURL, "") |
Adds a sidebar panel. | Obsolete since Firefox 23 (only present in SeaMonkey). End users can use the "load this bookmark in the sidebar" option instead. Also see Creating a Firefox sidebar. |
addPersistentPanel(title, contentURL, "") |
Adds a sidebar panel, which is able to work in the background. | |
AddSearchProvider(descriptionURL) |
Dummy function; does nothing. See Autodiscovery of search plugins. | |
addSearchEngine(engineURL, iconURL, suggestedTitle, suggestedCategory) Obsolete since Gecko 44 |
Installs a search engine (Sherlock). Adding Sherlock search engines contains more details. Note: This was made obsolete in Firefox 44, and has been removed completely in Firefox 59. |
|
IsSearchProviderInstalled(descriptionURL) |
Indicates if a specific search provider (OpenSearch) is installed. | |
Specification
Mozilla-specific. Not part of any standard.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sidebar | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox
Full support
Yes
| IE ? | Opera ? | Safari ? | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android ? | Safari iOS ? | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.