macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design

[headlessmike]

They removed the “show color in tab bar” option as well. I liked having it

It's still there in the (superior) Compact mode.

 

[GLS]

Something, something, George Lucas add on scene to the end of The Empire Strikes Back showing all the various celebrations going on around the universe.

 

[frou]

Good for them. This was almost the beta testing feedback process working as intended, apart from the fact that they already let Safari 15.0 final out the door on Big Sur!

 

[kalafalas]

Glad the separate tab design was reverted to the old tried and true. Also glad compact is sticking around, as that’s my personal favorite. Win for everyone!

 

[headlessmike]

Any way to download and install this on Big Sur w/o a developer's account? Already running the regular Safari 15 on Big Sur.

It'll probably be out next week for Big Sur.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Switched to compact mode, I am one of the rare people who likes the changes

 

[Populus]

It seems like Apple is listening more their customers lately, isn’t it? HDMI and SD card are back, the touchbar is gone and function keys are back...

Is the old design still available as an option? The coloured top bar still an option? I never started using the new Safari, so it will remain the same to me, but I was curious just to try it.

EDIT: Ok, apparently you can still revert to the new-old design. I just read it.

 

[ruka.snow]

I hope it still has the compact design. I really don’t want to lose that space for a design that doesn’t give me any benefits.

 

[q64ceo]

Is the old design still available as an option? The coloured top bar still an option? I never started using the new Safari, so it will remain the same to me, but I was curious just to try it.

You mean the new design? This is the old design.

 

[warpdrive]

the negative feedback was strong on this one, especially with people like Gruber calling them out.

 

[tomtad]

What a debacle this has been

 

[Marbles1]

This macrumours article needs to be re-worded to make it clearer:

“macOS Monterey now features a standard Big Sur tab design that does have the tabs with spaces in between them, which Mac users who were unhappy with the design update will be pleased to hear.”

:-s

 

[eatrains]

Now they just need to put the "+" new tab button back on the right of the tab bar.

 

[testcard]

Glad to hear it.

 

[ponzicoinbro]

Cool I like the old tabs better than the button tabs but I’m using the unified tabs anyway and got used to that.

 

[Populus]

You mean the new design? This is the old design.

Excuse me, I got a bit confused. You’re right, this is the old design.

 

[Ethosik]

This is disappointing. I loved the new design. Will there be an option?

 

[OneInfiniteLooper]

Today I was told by a friend that I'm one of probably ten people in the world that liked a lot of the redesign, including the tab bar.

 

[nortonandreev]

I'm so happy, honestly!

 

[MattakiStar]

I feel like the only person that has liked everything they did with Safari, both on Mac with that design and on iOS with the address bar dropped to the bottom of the screen. Does this also rollback the way the nav bar inherits colors from the web page?

I’m with you. I don’t understand the hate.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

This is disappointing. I loved the new design. Will there be an option?

Yeah, it is called Compact in settings

 

[q64ceo]

Excuse me, I got a bit confused. You’re right, this is the old design.

No need to be excused. Just giving you a hard time

 

[HughRR]

They trashed the stupid Touch Bar And the stupid tabs. Have they buried Jony somewhere finally?

 

[stonevil]

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[justperry]

Macbook Pro reintroduces Magsafe and HDMI. MacOS reintroduces proper tabs.

Now get rid of the flat UI design too, OS X was sooo gorgeous.