How do I stop the firefox sidebar from flipping open and shut non-stop and driving me to almost smash my keyboard through the screen???

I love firefox but the sidebar is a massive turn-off. It flips open and shut when your pointer inadvertently goes near the thing. If I had just started with firefox and had no history of it being brilliant (apart from insanely slow to open) I would never give it a second look. Dump the dumb sidebar thing or make it so you at least have to click it. As it is it's the single most annoying thing I've encountered in computers since I had windows Vista as an operating system - and we know how that story ended...yes in tears.
Don't let that happen to firefox - it is too fantastic for a pathetic feature like this to unwind all the hard work of countless people around the world.
If you cant piss it off for good at least make controlling it a primary informative guidline in Help.
Seriously, it is worse than Vista and Millenium put together on the irritation index!! Only a true masochist (*ok, your average geek) would put up with it.
There, that's better it's now off my chest. I need to take up Yoga.

Sounds that you have installed an extension that has added that feature because Firefox doesn't do that by default.
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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