How to Hide Opera GX Sidebar in a Few Simple Steps

To hide the Opera GX sidebar, you'll need to access the Settings menu. This can be done by clicking on the Opera GX logo in the top left corner of the browser window, then selecting Settings from the dropdown menu.

The sidebar can be toggled on and off by clicking on the Sidebar button in the top right corner of the browser window. This button is represented by a small icon of a sidebar.

To make the sidebar permanently hidden, you'll need to navigate to the Appearance section of the Settings menu. From here, you can toggle off the Show Sidebar option.

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To enable auto-hide for the sidebar in Opera, you need to modify a secret preference/flag in the browser. This can be done by typing opera://flags in the address bar and pressing Enter.

The auto-hide feature allows you to automatically hide and show the sidebar, which can be useful if you want to access your sidebar shortcuts quickly but don't want the panel to take up space on the screen. By default, the sidebar is enabled and visible at the left-side in Opera.

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To enable auto-hide sidebar feature, select the option that says "Auto-hide sidebar" in the Experiments page. This option is available after searching for "autohide" in the "Search flags" text box.

Once you enable auto-hide feature, you can right-click on the sidebar and select "Automatically hide sidebar" option. The sidebar will become hidden, and you can make it visible again by hovering the mouse cursor over the left-side of the browser window.

Opera will ask you to restart the browser after enabling the auto-hide feature. Click on "Relaunch now" button to restart Opera.

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To hide the sidebar in Opera GX, scroll down to the Appearance section. You can find it by scrolling down in the settings.

The Show sidebar option is turned on by default, so you need to click on the switch next to it to turn it off. As soon as you click on the switch, the sidebar will disappear.

You can always enable it again by going to Easy setup > Appearance.

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To hide the Opera GX sidebar using the Easy Setup Method, you'll need to navigate to the Appearance settings.

Under Appearance, you'll see an option called Show Sidebar. Turning off the toggle will hide the sidebar.

Now that you've identified the reasons why you might want to hide the Opera GX sidebar, let's get to the final steps.

First, you need to click on the Opera GX sidebar and select the "Sidebar settings" option from the drop-down menu.

To disable the sidebar, toggle the switch next to "Sidebar" to the off position. This will immediately hide the sidebar on your Opera GX browser.

You can also reset the sidebar settings to their default values by clicking on the "Reset" button.

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