There were some aspects you could not revert such as the tabs being disconnected from the website.
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macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design
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I have the same frustrations.Having to click the side bar button then click again for bookmarks in the new Safari is also very annoying.
I know its only one extra click but when your using it all day, its very annoying.
Please sort it out Apple
Underwhelmed with the new macbooks?
Did you even see the Macbook release?
Wtf is wrong with some people lol that release is INSANE
I came here to say "Thank goodness!" because I have been closing the wrong tab for weeks. The problem was that the coloring wasn't consistent and in the past, darker meant "in the background." However, I just downloaded 12.0.1, and clicked on Compact mode to compare after reading some of these comments, because I actually do like the coloring in compact mode... and THEY FIXED IT! Now the active tab enlarges and is very obvious. Ok... keeping this on.
I like the new Safari. Will there be a way to keep it? Would be great if customization is available.
Thank god they kept the new compact design in as an option. I started liking it a lot more once I got used it. Glad the old design is back for alternative option though. The in-between design we had before was simply terrible.
They probably looked at the data on how many users on iOS and iPadOS 15 and Monterey beta reverted Safari (or reverted as much as was possible) to the previous design.
yes, i saw it — they are ugly af.
they are thicker and heavier than previous ones. that hinge looks awful in the side view.
they have the notch, which doesn't bother me too much, but the least they could do is flush the menu bar with it.
option-wise they are the same, sans the processor and ram. it still costs a butt load to add some sufficient storage. the iphone now supports up to 1tb, yet the mbp still starts at 512.
so, to answer your question — wtf is wrong with you?
You’re not losing screen real estate compared to the old models. The notch (and menubar) provide an extra 72 pixels. The remaining screen (minus the 72 pixels) remains at 16:10 and the same effective resolution.
It's not about shouting. It's about legitimate usability issues. This was the right path. The "new" design was exactly opposite good (and well-studied) design concepts.
Is there hope that Apple will eventually reverse this ugly monotone, outline-only, minimalist design motif? I'm so far back in the past that my icons still have depth AND color.
Because they weren't connected to the content, breaking the metaphor of tabs entirely. They weren't "pill-like" tabs, they were buttons that were hard to distinguish context and state. Worse in every way except for "looking cool".
wait, are you saying that the unevenness between the two is where the 72px lie?
I’m not sure what you mean by “unevenness.” It looks like the menubar extends a little beyond the 72px (probably to whatever the height already is in Monterey). Are you saying you want the menubar to be exactly 72px?
i'm talking about this:
they couldn't have made the menu bar shorter by however many pixels that would be?! i know that it's a bit ocd, but a lot of apple users are!
I think a straight cutoff to make it flush would actually look worse. (It’s just a personal opinion.) The way they‘ve done it, the menubar envelops the notch, and the menubar is still a single, non-bisected strip.i'm talking about this:
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they couldn't have made the menu bar shorter by however many pixels that would be?! i know that it's a bit ocd, but a lot of apple users are!
I mean, they definitely must have prototyped it and come to the conclusion that it looked better with it not being flush.