diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/ideModeView.tsx b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/ideModeView.tsx
index 761f68c163..2b39c8eb4b 100644
--- a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/ideModeView.tsx
+++ b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/ideModeView.tsx
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export const IDEModeView: React.FunctionComponent = () => {
     <div className='progress'>
       <div className='inner-progress' style={{ width: progress.total ? (100 * progress.done / progress.total) + '%' : 0 }}></div>
     </div>
-    <Workbench model={model} onSelectionChanged={selectionChanged} showSettings />
+    <Workbench model={model} onSelectionChanged={selectionChanged} showSettings excludeSidebarTabs={['source']} />
     {!traceURLs.length && <div className='empty-state'>
       <div className='title'>Select test to see the trace</div>
     </div>}
diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/workbench.tsx b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/workbench.tsx
index 3565eb3850..17b8954488 100644
--- a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/workbench.tsx
+++ b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/workbench.tsx
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ export const Workbench: React.FunctionComponent<{
   onOpenExternally?: (location: modelUtil.SourceLocation) => void,
   revealSource?: boolean,
   showSettings?: boolean,
-}> = ({ model, showSourcesFirst, rootDir, fallbackLocation, initialSelection, onSelectionChanged, isLive, status, annotations, inert, openPage, onOpenExternally, revealSource, showSettings }) => {
+  excludeSidebarTabs?: string[]
+}> = ({ model, showSourcesFirst, rootDir, fallbackLocation, initialSelection, onSelectionChanged, isLive, status, annotations, inert, openPage, onOpenExternally, revealSource, showSettings, excludeSidebarTabs }) => {
   const [selectedAction, setSelectedActionImpl] = React.useState<modelUtil.ActionTraceEventInContext | undefined>(undefined);
   const [revealedStack, setRevealedStack] = React.useState<StackFrame[] | undefined>(undefined);
   const [highlightedAction, setHighlightedAction] = React.useState<modelUtil.ActionTraceEventInContext | undefined>();
@@ -347,7 +348,7 @@ export const Workbench: React.FunctionComponent<{
         }
       />}
       sidebar={<TabbedPane
-        tabs={tabs}
+        tabs={excludeSidebarTabs ? tabs.filter(t => !excludeSidebarTabs.includes(t.id)) : tabs}
         selectedTab={selectedPropertiesTab}
         setSelectedTab={selectPropertiesTab}
         rightToolbar={[