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:

Language
Englishen
简体中文zh-CN
繁體中文zh-TW
日本語ja
Portuguêspt
Españoles
Русскийru

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.

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

ShortcutGoes to
FavoritesYour Favorites tab
Switch to Original SidebarThe platform's own sidebar

Gemini only

ShortcutGoes to
My StuffGemini's My Stuff page
GemsGemini's Gems overview
NotebooksGemini's Notebooks overview

AI Studio only

ShortcutGoes to
BuildAI Studio's Build page
DashboardAI Studio's Dashboard
DocumentationAI Studio's docs

The list you see depends on which site you're on — Gemini shortcuts don't appear while you're in AI Studio.

Tip

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.

Warning

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:

Looking forGo to
Theme, light/dark modeThemes
Default view mode, sort order, ignored foldersLibrary
Widths, Zen Mode, element visibilityLayout & Width
HotkeysKeyboard Shortcuts
Backups, Drive sync, profiles, resetBackups · Drive Sync · Multi-Account
Notion connectionIntegrations
Agent permissions and skillsSkills & Tools
Licences and what's paidPacks
Paper Crane Dev  ·  set in Playfair Display & JetBrains Mono