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Safari 15 Users Say New Tab Design is Counterintuitive
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Compact feels jarring with how the address bar shrinks and expands. I know you lose vertical height by having a dedicated address bar, but the stability of having it there permanently and at same size throughout is so much easier on the eyes/brain.
I also turned off "Show color in tab bar"...if I am to get accustomed to this new change, it has to be this way. With it turned on, like highlighted above, which tab is selected as shown by darker/lighted is reversed depending on the theme colour of the page.
This is the best compromise for me. I still have W10 machines, High Sierra, and Chrome that all use the lighter as the active tab, so it throws me off going back and forth.
I also turned off "Show color in tab bar"...if I am to get accustomed to this new change, it has to be this way. With it turned on, like highlighted above, which tab is selected as shown by darker/lighted is reversed depending on the theme colour of the page.
This is the best compromise for me. I still have W10 machines, High Sierra, and Chrome that all use the lighter as the active tab, so it throws me off going back and forth.
Aye, that is a bit confusing, though you can see the black leading to the code.
Textmate 2 has been my default for a while, though the tabs to me look like they are the wrong way round. It looks like the title bar is tabbed and not the content.
OK, wow, if that's the case then there really is a problem here. I didn't try private mode.
For me, in normal browsing mode, the active tab is always the highlighted (brighter colour) one.
Darkening out the tab in use goes against everything our brains have been taught for 150,000 years of human history. It’s so frustrating to be productive in safari.
Perfect! That absolutely perfectly illustrates the problem.
Once you have more than 9 or so tabs open (exact number may depend on your window/screen size), the active tab will become larger than inactive tabs.
I make slide shows, photo manipulate and quality control for a web company via freelance,
I'm over qualified too.
Edge is surprisingly good. I am preferring it over Chrome as alternative to Safari on my iMac. Not perfect, but the interface is “decent”.
Firefox's proton sucks, but at least one can easily tell the difference with the selected tab and the non-selected ones.
Did you go to theverge.com and news.google.com? Also you can't be forcing Dark Mode or something.
I usually go for between my Discord sticky and the tab. Or any of that large whitespace above and below the tabs (that could do with a trim).
That's fine. I specifically described a case where you have 2 tabs open. You shouldn't have to have 3+ tabs open for the UI to become decent.
Well you saw my tab bar...Where am I to click and drag? There's nothing extreme about my configuration.
I really like the new Safari update — except for this very topic. It's also thrown me off.
Yes, same in the Calendar app and elsewhere that times & dates need to be entered. I agree this was a bad change in iOS 14 and it's great to see they changed back to the traditional wheel in iOS 15.
You have 12(24) pixels above and below each tab, to me it is waisted space as 2(4) pixels would be more than sufficient and reduce the vertical space eaten, but clearly this is big enough for a touch input just now so you have this big area to drag about.