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ikjadoon We aren't complaining about having the dedicated pages for downloads, history, favorites. We are complaining about not having the ability to choose. Sometimes you need to find something quickly, sometimes you simply want to track progress of multiple downloads simultaneously while reading something else online. And sometimes you are simply re-organizing your favorites.
Why would you want to switch tabs, while you can have the increased productivity when you can access all of them from a pinned sidebar? You can track downloading progress, you can click on a favorite to get your current tab redirected, see result, and either delete it or move on to the next one.
Or you have to close the tab, switch back to the previous one, and open the next link in a new tab. Even to do that, you have to know shortcuts to open result in a new tab instead of the same one, or you risk getting your history, where you scrolled really far down, getting redirected to the link clicked, and upon returning, you have to scroll all the way down once again to find your previous spot.
It's just inconvenient for a lot of scenarios. Which is why some of us really loved it and, hence, would love it back.
For me, personally, I have the same needs, but maybe have gotten used to other browsers, so I hadn't had the time to fall in love with the sidebar menu: CTRL+J to open downloads, search, and then CTRL+W to close it, for example. Download progress, I do just use the download bar at the bottom (though I wish it showed speeds!).
I see your points: thank you for the well-written post. I hope they take these use cases into account for either adding the sidebar menu and/or somehow duplicating these features with their current menu.
Or, worse comes to worst, since it's just another tab, maybe an extension could be developed? But, I see the desire for native integration.