I also liked the new style and glad they are allowing you to choose between how you want it to be displayed.I feel like I’m the only person that liked the change! Oh well, not a big deal to me at the end of the day as I’m one to never really have more than 5 tabs open and close them as soon as I’m done. I mostly appreciated how the interface stayed thin with more than one tab open. Oh well, can’t please everyone!
edit: as others have pointed out, there’s a choice between the two styles! Happy day
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macOS Monterey Beta 3: Apple Redesigns Safari Tab Interface Following Complaints
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In macOS Monterey, Apple has walked this back. There's a dedicated URL/search bar at the top of the Safari window, with the tabs arranged below it. Clicking on a tab makes it the active window and it's easier to drag tabs for rearranging or opening in a new window.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
That was the one thing I loved about the new Safari... sigh.
I hope they add a setting in safari to choose one of the two methods...
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
That was the one thing I loved about the new Safari... sigh.
I hope they add a setting in safari to choose one of the two methods...
Perhaps a better headline would’ve been “Apple responds to beta tester feedback,” but certainly that would’ve been less clickbaity.
I feel like I’m the only person that liked the change! Oh well, not a big deal to me at the end of the day as I’m one to never really have more than 5 tabs open and close them as soon as I’m done. I mostly appreciated how the interface stayed thin with more than one tab open. Oh well, can’t please everyone!
edit: as others have pointed out, there’s a choice between the two styles! Happy day
Yes, reading comprehension seems to be limited here. 🤣 It's an option, which is the best way to solve this. Good call, Apple.
I, too, keep a small number of tabs open, so I look forward to the compact design.
the updated design of the previous look, with the old tab bar, looks atrocious with two tabs open. It looks like two address bars below a centered address bar above. Revert the old design.
The overall concept of randomly moving and hiding ui elements has got to go. With STP 127, I find myself clicking around all over the place trying to navigate tabs, refresh the page, find reader mode (often doesn't appear when it should), the tab preview thumbnails get stuck and prevent page navigation until you mouse over the tabs again.
126/127 tab/search/url UI needs to die in a fire. It's awful.
126/127 tab/search/url UI needs to die in a fire. It's awful.
Correct.
But when a new design relocates certain items behind a menu... or makes it more difficult to do something that was easy before... that's when people get angry.
does anyone remember when the Safari 4 Beta had the tabs at the top? That was my personal favorite UI layout in Safari and I was sad to see them revert back to the more traditional UI layout by the time the final version released.
As soon as I saw Safari in the first Monterey beta I said to myself I’d be surprised if the final version keeps the bold UI design or ends up reverting back to a more traditional UI once again.
Ch-ch-ch-cha-changes…for the sake of change!
Sing to the David Bowie tune.
Sing to the David Bowie tune.
I long for the days where buttons looked like buttons that could be pressed, tabs that looked like tabs, and textfields that looked like textfield.
Currently all three look the same and it’s up to the user to discover what an element will do when pressed.
This obsession with flat minimalism is getting out of hand.
Currently all three look the same and it’s up to the user to discover what an element will do when pressed.
This obsession with flat minimalism is getting out of hand.
Yeah I remember those tabs. Apple got as much backlash then as they did this time around.
does anyone remember when the Safari 4 Beta had the tabs at the top? That was my personal favorite UI layout in Safari and I was sad to see them revert back to the more traditional UI layout by the time the final version released.
As soon as I saw Safari in the first Monterey beta I said to myself I’d be surprised if the final version keeps the bold UI design or ends up reverting back to a more traditional UI once again.
Funny thing is Apple was way ahead of the curve, every other browser now uses tabs on top - Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Opera.
Safari is still using bottom tabs and as soon as they tried something new everyone bit their head off again. At least this time it seems we have an option to choose tabs separate and combined like beta 2
Love or hate the change, something like this would’ve taken 3-4 years (if ever!) to change based on user feedback a few years ago. They’ve actually gotten better at responding to constructive criticism.
Thanks the gods this terrible feature was reversed. With 3-4 tabs it wasn't too bad. But more than half a dozen tabs or so and I got lost. Even the position of the lock icon was bad because I accidentally clicked on the lock multiple times. I hadn't been able to find out how to move tabs around.
Yeah great so when is iOS safari going back to the old style too? Even in beta 3 it still looks like a mess.
At least give us the OPTION to switch, Apple: address bar on top or bottom.
Please, do it for me, because I’m not looking forward to having to reteach my parents how to type an address in manually.
Thanks.
At least give us the OPTION to switch, Apple: address bar on top or bottom.
Please, do it for me, because I’m not looking forward to having to reteach my parents how to type an address in manually.
Thanks.
I actually liked it and was enjoying it on the technical preview. Kinda disappointed that they rolled back to a traditional design.
Apple really messed up on this one. I think for the final release they should stick with the beta design, and whoever doesn't like it/doesn't get used to it can enable this design in the Preferences
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Good— the initial redesign they unveiled at WWDC looked awful and confusing. This is an improvement.
Safari is working reliably with the new interface but not when the interface is reverted back to pre-beta 3. This is funny, Apple has their work cut out before them. Joys of beta.
The bookmarks bar always looked ugly. Never used it so I didn’t notice the new place.
That’s a bad use of space to me. Also how would this work on the iPad? You’d lose a lot of content width just to have that sidebar.
I truly don’t get why so many people hate the tab bar all the sudden. It’s like 1.5 lines of text. It’s nothing.
One of my major peeves with UI design of a lot of apps and Apple UI included. Often times, we don't know now if there is something more to be had here.