Browser extensions now have a wider default width

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Switch to narrow or go ↔️ extra wide: Settings → Appearance → Extension Width

Rolling out in 2026.1.0.

What is your go-to extension width?
  • Narrow (previously Default)
  • Default (previously Wide)
  • Wide (previously Extra Wide)
  • I didn’t know you could change it
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So the options will no longer be shown as “Default, Wide, Extra Wide”, but rather “Narrow, Default, Wide” (with the same actual widths as the current “Default, Wide, Extra Wide” options)?

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Hey @grb, that’s correct (updated post above with more clear name changes).

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And for users who currently have selected “Default” (in 2025.12.1), will that setting be automatically converted to “Narrow” in the update to 2026.1.0, or should we be expecting an influx of forum posts from users unhappy with the newly expanded width of their browser extensions?

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It should retain their settings, but the names will change.

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In my case it didn’t…

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Same for me. The browser extension opened in “wide” (a.k.a. the new “default”) mode as soon as I updated to 2026.1.0. My previous setting was “default” (i.e., “narrow”), so perhaps only non-default settings are preserved in the update…

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I think we can rule that out, as my preferred setting (formerly known as “extra wide”) is a non-default setting…

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I like the new width. Is this in preparation for displaying more information?

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I don’t know that. But to vary the width was introduced about a year ago already – so that new width was available before.

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Cynical me says: More likely, it is the avoid having to figure out how to display information more compactly — or to allow further indulgence of recent UI fads that feature wide expanses of empty padding and margins…

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Is the other part in you also available? :sweat_smile:

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  1. in my case, where i use the ‘extra wide GIMME WIDER AND TALLER mode’, it did not remember my setting, and instead reset to ‘Select your width again, screw your former option’ (not even ‘default’).

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  1. the order of those 3 entries should be
  • narrow
  • default
  • wide

so as to symbolize how the width of the window will change. now ‘default’ is the first option, which means ‘default’ is the smallest width which is misleading.

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Yeah, good point, it suggests that… an order from narrow to wide (with “medium” / default in the middle) would be much more congruent and intuitive.

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that’s a much better word than misleading. thank you and sorry :kissing_face_with_closed_eyes:

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