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

The bad news is that they've decided to keep the feature that crashes Safari run on a M-chip device if you try to bookmark certain urls, e.g. on YouTube. YouTube suck but it should really be up to the user to decide what page to bookmark without the browser crashing.
 
justperry said:
Now get rid of the flat UI design too, OS X was sooo gorgeous.
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Personally I like flat themes. What I dislike are the roundrects on everything. And the changes they made to the global menubar in Big Sur.
 
You are the One said:
The bad news is that they've decided to keep the feature that crashes Safari run on a M-chip device if you try to bookmark certain urls, e.g. on YouTube. YouTube suck but it should really be up to the user to decide what page to bookmark without the browser crashing.
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Not really a solution, but you could add those videos to your "liked" videos playlist.
 
MrENGLISH said:
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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.
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I called it back in July

That being said, I actually really like Safari 15 and the fact that they gave the user the option to choose what UI layout they prefer to use. I'm in the minority who use and like the compact UI layout.
 
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not to mention it is buggy as F, im sitting on Silicon version of Edge, until update comes out and this monstrosity is fixed.
 
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Redesign isn't a big success in IOS either. I guess someone made some bad assumptions.
 
They listened to me! They read my angry comment and they listened! Behold!
 
yeah I actually liked the button tabs. they were a cleaner look and I had zero problem telling they were tabs. I did not get the vocal minority outrage on that one.

The color thing was obnoxious on some websites specifically the sites with dark colors. It was too much for the eyeballs.

Compact bar is a good concept to save wasted space and that's what I'm using but still needs some work. IT's a little busy in the active tab with a bunch of icons crowded in there. The 'three dot' button repeats what the share button does.
 
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Let’s hope they do some soul-searching to find out how things went wrong and why they spent so much time and effort on a clearly awful Separate layout design.
 
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So are the program title bars back to gray, after being white in Big Sur? I found that to be blinding.
 
MacRumors said:


Apple has admitted defeat on the Safari design changes that have been present for the entire macOS Monterey beta, and the release candidate that was provided to developers today reverts to the old style that was available prior to Safari 15.

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Safari design in the macOS Monterey release candidate​

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.

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Safari design in the prior macOS Monterey beta​

The standard tab design is enabled by default and is labeled "Separate" in the Safari preferences, but for those who preferred the original Monterey Safari design, there's also a "Compact" option that merges the URL bar with the tab bar.

Apple in the prior Monterey beta moved the Favorites bar back up above the tab bar, so now Safari looks about the same as it did prior to when Apple made the Monterey changes. There are, however, still new Safari features like Tab Groups.

macOS Monterey with no changes to the Safari design will be coming on Monday, October 25.

Article Link: macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design
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Where is the courage?
 
I'm actually a slight bit torn on this decision. On the on hand, the new tab bar was just, well, not great - especially in the confusion as to which tab was the active tab. On the other hand, I really did like how the tab bar and address bar adopted the color of the webpage. Hopefully Apple will keep the old tab design, but reintroduce the background color option.

Finally, Apple really needs to move the "new tab" button back to the tab bar itself. Even with the reversion to the old design, the new tab button is in the address bar area.
 
i kinda liked the new design and loved having the website color on the tab bar.. too bad
 
I'm glad they are keeping both designs. I like the new design on my MacBook Air, and the old design on my iMac.
 
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What did I tell you? I think I told you that they would revert back to the tried and true and tested design of old! Don't change what works! Seriously...I hope Apple learned a valuable lesson here about making changes that don't really need changing....especially the web browser, which has become the #1 app that most people use on a day-day basis...
 
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