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 | Find text on the page. On Windows, the count shows the current match number and the total matches. Click Aa to match case. |
| Open in external browser | Open the current page in your default system browser. |
Back and Forward are also available with Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] on Windows and Linux, or Cmd+[ and Cmd+] on macOS.
When Trackpad Swipe Navigation is enabled in Settings > Other Settings > Input (it is on by default), swipe right with two fingers to go back and left to go forward. Over the page, the browser engine handles the gesture; over the toolbar, Zide handles it. Both routes use the page’s browsing history. If that direction has no page history, the gesture does nothing instead of moving through Zide’s content-tab history.
The address bar accepts URLs, search terms, and local file paths.
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.
To open the Page Console, click the More icon and then Page Console. The Page Console appears at the bottom of the browser tab. Drag the pane divider to resize the pane. Click the Close icon to close the Page Console.
The Page Console keeps up to 1,000 messages, and drops the oldest message first. Click the Clear icon to clear all messages in the Page Console. Messages also clear when you leave the page or reload the page.
Each message displays the severity, text, a repeat counter when the same message occurs several times in a row, and the script location where available.
When a message’s location is a file in the project that owns the Web Browser tab, the filename becomes a link. Click the filename to open the file, or to focus it if it is already open; when the message reports a line number, the file opens at that line. Click the Show in File Browser icon beside the location to select the file in the File Browser. Locations on remote sites, and locations that do not resolve to a file inside the owning project, stay as plain text.
You can filter messages by text or source location in the Filter messages field in the Page Console header. Click Errors to view error messages and click Warnings to view warning messages in the Page Console.
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.
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.