General
The General page holds three small things: what language the extension speaks, which shortcut buttons clutter your sidebar, and whether deleting asks first.
Open it with the gear icon or Alt+Shift+,, then pick General.
Language
Better Sidebar is fully translated into 7 languages:
The change applies immediately — labels, tooltips, dialogs, changelog, everything. On first install the language is guessed from your browser's locale.
This setting is independent of what language Gemini itself is running in.
Sidebar Shortcuts
These are the quick-link buttons in the sidebar. Each one has a switch, so you can hide the ones you never press.
On both platforms
Gemini only
AI Studio only
The list you see depends on which site you're on — Gemini shortcuts don't appear while you're in AI Studio.
If you're going to use Compact Mode anyway, don't bother tuning these — compact mode hides the whole icon bar. This page is for people who want a slightly tidier sidebar rather than a bare one.
Behavior
Delete conversations without confirmation
Off by default, and we'd suggest leaving it that way.
With it on, deleting a single conversation happens the instant you click — no dialog, no undo, and the conversation is removed from Google's servers as well as from Better Sidebar.
Batch delete still asks for confirmation regardless of this setting.
This is the only setting in Better Sidebar that can lose data with a single misclick. Turn it on only if you're deliberately doing a lot of one-at-a-time cleanup and you're confident about what you're clicking. Batch Mode is usually the better answer for bulk deletion, because it shows you exactly what's selected before it runs.
Where Everything Else Lives
The General page is intentionally small. The settings people usually come looking for are elsewhere: