Web Browser
You can use a web browser directly inside Zide, letting you view web pages without leaving the app.
Navigating the Web Browser tab
To open the Web Browser tab, click Tools > Web Browser.
The web browser toolbar includes the following operations.
| Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| Back | Navigate backwards through your browsing history. |
| Forward | Navigate forward through your browsing history. |
| Refresh | Reload the current page. |
| Home | Return to the home page of the browser. |
| Bookmarks | Open saved websites in the browser. |
| Find in page | Locate specific words, numbers, or phrases in the page. |
| Open in external browser | Open the current page in your default system browser. |
The address bar accepts URLs, search terms, and local file paths. A plain path such as C:\projects\site\index.html or /home/user/site/index.html opens the file directly, the same as pasting a file:// URL.
Click the More icon to view options to copy the current URL, view downloaded files, open the Page Console, and clear browsing data.
You can open links in the web browser in new tabs. A new tab in the web browser opens as a new Web Browser tab.
Page Console
The Page Console shows errors and warnings from the page itself: console.error and console.warn output, uncaught exceptions, and unhandled promise rejections. Use it to see why a page is misbehaving, for example when a local HTML file you are previewing fails to run its scripts.
To open the Page Console, click the More icon and then Page Console. The pane appears at the bottom of the browser tab; drag the divider above it to resize it, and close it with the Close icon or the same menu item.
Zide captures page errors and warnings even while the pane is closed, including errors that happen during page load, so you can open the Page Console after something goes wrong and still see what happened. Messages are kept per tab (up to 1,000, oldest dropped first) and clear when the page navigates or reloads.
In the pane header you can:
| Control | Description |
|---|---|
| Filter messages | Narrow the list to messages containing the text, matching the message or its source location. |
| Errors / Warnings | Toggle each severity on or off. Each chip shows its message count. |
| Clear | Empty the list. |
Each message shows its severity, text, a repeat counter when the same message occurs several times in a row, and the script location (file:line) where available. Messages from scripts on a different origin than the page may appear as Script error. without details; browsers withhold those for security. Messages from iframes embedded in the page are not captured.
Browsing data
You can clear the browsing data in the built-in Web Browser tab. To clear data for a specific site, click the Site information icon and then Clear data for. To clear all browsing data, click the More icon and then Clear browsing data. In the Clear browsing data dialog, select Sign out of all sites or Clear everything, then click Clear. Sign out of all sites clears cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, and session storage. Clear everything clears all site data plus cache and service workers.
Link behavior
External links in issues, PRs, and other content open in the built-in Web Browser tab by default. You can change where external links in Zide open by default in Settings.