Sidekick doesn't show up on Preview & Live

[3ch023]

Today I had a problem with AEM Sidekick not showing up on Preview and Live (in Chrome). It was working in Sharepoint as usual and I was logged in.
Any insights on how to debug it/ see what could be an issue? I didn't see any issue in the console etc.
In Preview sometimes I was able to see the panel for a second and then it would disappear.

Eventually, I just switched to Safari and installed the plugin there and it worked fine. And mysteriously after that, it also started working in Chrome. So might be something auth related? I saved a recording of an issue if someone will be interested.

[3ch023]

UPD. One thing that might have helped - I also reinstalled the Chrome plugin and readded the config.

[mokimo]

Yes, reinstalling can help!

I just saw my sidekick version is a bit behind, so according to google:
Closing the browser and/or restarting machine should ensure chrome pulls the latest version of the plugin, which might help before reinstalling the plugin

[honstar]

Alternatively, you can also force a plugin update: click on manage extension in chrome, switch to Developer mode which will bring up an Update button.

[Ruchika4]

I have intermittently run into this issue in past on CC. Refreshing the browser use to fix it for me. However it has been working smooth of late. You see this issue in which project?

[3ch023]

for me, it was on milo. but i think its not a project-dependent issue, rather outdated plugin version, as mentioned below by @honstar

[honstar]

In general, I suspect that every time a new AEM sidekick plugin version is available, it tends to break. Either restarting chrome or forcing a plugin update seems to do the trick.

Is there a channel where sidekick plugin updates are broadcasted somehow?

[Ruchika4]

We can follow https://github.com/adobe/helix-sidekick-extension/releases and start watching for every release of sidekick (by selecting release in custom under watch).

However with every release sidekick extension auto updates.