Slack on Chromebooks – Workspace Switching Sidebar Issue

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When accessing Slack's web version (not the desktop app) on a Chromebook, there seems to be a feature where the workspace switcher sidebar appears on the left:

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This only appears to happen when viewing the web version on a Chromebook. I found this Reddit thread suggesting that Slack special-cases Chromebook to show this sidebar because Chromebooks don't support the desktop app version of Slack.

Is it somehow possible to make Slack show the workspace switching sidebar on other web clients too, besides Chromebooks?

Best Answer

I can see the workspace switching sidebar when I switch my User-Agent to Chrome on Chrome OS. It might have to do with the User-Agent string you are using. Here are the steps I've taken:

Chrome on Mac OS -> Developer Tools -> More Tools -> Network Condition

Chrome Dev Tools Network Conditions panel

In the Network Conditions panel make sure Select Automatically is deselected. Now select Chrome - Chrome OS.

How to select Chrome - Chrome OS User Agent

This is the User-Agent string being used:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 10066.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36