Support

Answers to the common questions first — and how to reach a human below.

Get help / report a bug

Email info@ranzlappen.com — bug reports, feature requests, and questions are all welcome. Please include your browser and version, what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead. You'll usually hear back within a few days.

If Pageside saves you time and you feel like saying thanks, there's a Ko-fi page — entirely optional, every feature is free for everyone.

Frequently asked questions

My CSS isn't applying to the page

Open the popup on the page you want to style and check three things:

The Detected site label matches the site (e.g. example.com).
Apply style on this site is ticked — the per-site switch keeps the snippet saved but skips injection when unticked.
You clicked Save Style Changes, not just Preview (previews vanish on reload).

If the site's own styles win, add !important to your rules. Browser-internal pages (chrome://…, the extension store) are off-limits to all extensions.

Which sites share one style? (subdomains, co.uk domains)

Styles are saved per base domain: www.example.com, shop.example.com, and example.com all share one snippet. Country suffixes are handled — www.bbc.co.uk maps to bbc.co.uk, not to co.uk, so different .co.uk sites keep separate styles.

The popup says "Could not detect the site"

Open the popup while a normal web page is in front (not a new-tab page or a chrome:// page), then tap the message to retry. On some Android browsers detection takes a beat — reopening the popup on the page also fixes it.

I loaded the zip on Android (Kiwi) and nothing happened

That's the Manifest V3 zip — Kiwi and most Android Chromium forks silently reject it. Use the -kiwi.zip (Manifest V2) build from the Android download. Also make sure manifest.json sits at the root of the zip, not inside a folder. Full walkthrough: mobile installation guide.

How do I back up or move my styles?

Export JSON in the popup's Tools section writes all snippets to a file; Import JSON merges them back in on any machine. Private notes are never included in exports. Uninstalling the extension deletes all local data, so export first.

How do I undo "Hide Element"?

Hide Element appends a display: none rule to the site's saved CSS. Open the popup on that site and delete that line in the editor (it names the selector it hid), then save.

Why does Chrome say the extension can "read my browsing history"?

That's Chrome's standard wording for the tabs permission, which powers the site detection and the tab organizer (sort / group / close duplicates). Pageside reads tab titles and URLs in memory only — nothing is stored or transmitted. See the privacy policy.

Does Pageside collect any data?

No. There is no server, no analytics, and no tracking. Everything you create stays in your browser's local extension storage. The privacy policy has the full breakdown of what is stored locally and why each permission exists.