[BlackForestBoy]

> but it was popping the sidebar up in circumstances where i didnt want it

Ok so the core issue was that the sidebar was popping up in places you didn't want to? Or was it also that the keyboard shortcuts were firing the sidebar to appear in places you didn't want?

> Text search is hard, I know that from mere experiments and demos; adding the "be a browser plugin" to that must make life fun indeed.

Yes, it was/is quite painful, especially in the browser. With its changing APIs, and websites constantly changing and using different technologies, makes browsers a very hostile environment to work with. We can't even do test releases with the chrome/firefox store. So we have to roll out all updates to all users at once. Crazy.

Before we focused on building something to show how our vision could work at the expense of stability. It was in a lot of ways not a good move because we probably could have been financially independent with a little less features that were more stable and better worked out. However our approach also allowed us to show the vision and get bigger amounts of funding. Now is the time to make the current feature set nice to use and people feel like it is worth financially supporting.