Rank, 14 days: 43 on the Claude Code sheet
9 people reported
All time, since Oct 13, including 6 thumbs-up on GitHub.
History session opens in sidebar
“The right sidebar switches to it, so the conversation I was working in there leaves the screen, and the new tab stays empty.”
Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.
Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.
I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/claude-code/issues/12287/file Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.
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History session opens in sidebar instead of editor tab. With preferredLocation set to panel, choosing a session from Session history in an editor tab switches the secondary sidebar to it and leaves the tab empty.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- VS Code extension
- Versions
- 2.1.296 to 2.1.304
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it used to work.
Not quite your bug?
Original reports3, newest first
- VS Code: Opening a history session in an editor tab overrides the secondary sidebar instead of opening as a separate tab#107087
- VS Code: a session held by the side bar can no longer be opened in an editor tab#103597
- VS Code: a session picked from History in a new tab opens in the sidebar instead, if the sidebar has had it open#101817