I have the oppositw feeling, "expand on hover" feels too quick to me - I'd actually prefer the sidebar to stay close when I hover to change tab, and open when I stop for a longer time to search the right tab to click on. The proposal to add an option...
I second this. Right now those "android search engines" are actually bundles of a search engine (according to Android) AND a web browser - there's no way for example to use DuckDuckGo to search AND Firefox to browse.If Firefox could provide that sear...