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Sidebar Remover for All Websites
Automatically detect and hide cluttering sidebars, sticky navigation rails, and scrollbars across any website. Reclaim your horizontal reading space with one click.
Reclaim Your Screen: The Clean Web Guide
Modern websites are inundated with persistent side navigation rails, floating promotional panels, and redundant scrollbars that consume up to 40% of horizontal viewport width.
With Sidebar Remover active, layouts automatically re-balance into clean, edge-to-edge typography. Essential reading content flows naturally across your screen while keeping all page interaction and scrolling 100% fluid.
+42%Horizontal Space
0msReading Lag
100%Privacy Local
Core Capabilities
Designed for Modern Distraction-Free Web
Reclaim your screen space effortlessly across blogs, documentation sites, forums, and portals.
Intelligent Auto-Detection
Smart layout heuristics automatically detect sticky and fixed nav rails while protecting video players, comment boxes, and critical tools.
Universal Scrollbar Suppression
Eliminate vertical and horizontal scrollbars from pages. Scrolling remains 100% functional with your mouse wheel, trackpad, and keyboard.
100% Local & Private
Operates entirely locally in your browser. No telemetry, no external API calls, and zero browsing data collection. Always safe.
Domain-Specific Controls
Easily toggle on or off for individual websites. Manage custom Allowlist and Blocklist entries right from the clean popup.
Instant One-Click Restore
Need navigation back for a moment? Click "Restore Hidden" in the popup to bring back sidebars instantly without reloading.
Premium Charcoal Dark UI
Engineered with a high-contrast charcoal dark aesthetic that seamlessly blends with dark mode workflows and night reading.
Quick Setup
How to Install and Use
Up and running in less than 30 seconds.
01
Install the Extension
Download from GitHub or install via Chrome Web Store. Click "Add to Chrome" and pin it to your browser toolbar.
02
Browse Any Website
Visit your favorite documentation, blog, or news site. Sidebars and scrollbars disappear automatically.
03
Customize via Popup
Open the extension popup to check hidden count, toggle rules for the current website, or manage your allowlists.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to Common Questions
Everything you need to know about Sidebar Remover for all websites.
What is Sidebar Remover for all websites?
Sidebar Remover is a free Chrome extension that automatically detects and hides sticky sidebars, navigation rails, and floating side panels across any website to reclaim horizontal reading space.
Does Sidebar Remover break website layouts?
No. Sidebar Remover uses smart layout re-balancing. When a sidebar is hidden, the main reading area smoothly expands to fill the horizontal space while preserving essential content, video players, and core navigation.
Can I hide scrollbars on websites without disabling scrolling?
Yes! Sidebar Remover features a built-in Hide Scrollbars toggle. It completely removes the visual vertical and horizontal scrollbars from pages while still allowing smooth scrolling with your mouse wheel, trackpad, and keyboard arrow keys.
Does Sidebar Remover collect any personal data?
No. Sidebar Remover runs 100% locally inside your browser. It contains zero analytics, zero trackers, and makes zero network requests. Your browsing history never leaves your device.
Why does the extension not run on the Chrome Web Store?
Google Chrome enforces a strict security restriction that prevents all extensions from injecting scripts or styles into Chrome Web Store pages and internal chrome:// settings pages. Sidebar Remover runs on all normal web pages across the internet.