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Safari 15 Users Say New Tab Design is Counterintuitive
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The morons Apple hires to develop FW and software, and the morons that supervise them, probably don't even understand what tabs are, nor where they originated. Back in the filing cabinet days, tabs made it easy to find and access the folder of papers you were searching for. These Apple idiots think they can place non-intuitive buttons on the interface to do the same thing. Jobs always said simple was better, but these morons clearly don't think that way. Maybe the problem is they simply don't think at all. If they actually used the interfaces they develop, maybe we would have simple, intuitive interfaces rather than the huge pile of 🐂💩 we now have.
The redefined tabs is a UI failure. There is no indication of ownership between the tab and the web page.
The Tab is just a standalone widget... ugh.
The Tab is just a standalone widget... ugh.
I don't mind the design, but Safari just keeps crashing randomly on my M1 MacBook Pro... The tab count doesn't matter, its absolutely random. I do have 16 gigs of ram as well as 1 tb storage, but this doesn't necessarily happen due to stress. How annoying.
Not sure what's will all this fuss. I really like the new Compact mode on Safari 🤷♂️
First thing I do on a new Mac / trying a Mac in a store is to disable Natural scrolling!
I'm glad it's configurable.
Right. I do use compact mode where the active tab is so obvious. But even in "Separate" mode, it's totally clear to me which tab is active. The look of completely matches my intuition.
I am not an Apple fan these days, but Safari is not on my list of complaints.
I'm not sure I agree with this.
I think the convention in most UX circles, is that the selected state is usually diminished and greyed out.
Same. This new Safari design was just unnecessary.
Let’s not forget the close button which flips between the left and right hand side depending on the view.
A really poorly designed update, change for changes sake? The tab bar changing to the primary site color is horrendous and thankfully can be deactivated. The layout is less intuitive and for someone with a medical condition affecting my eyesight, it's much more difficult to now read and navigate. Clearly someone who has knowledge of accessibility wasn't involved in this dog's dinner. Dimming the active tab is unnecessary and irrational.
I'm guessing that they've run out of good ideas? This gives Apple something to promote in a future release....we've brought back the SD Card and Magsafe....aren't we wonderful.
I'm guessing that they've run out of good ideas? This gives Apple something to promote in a future release....we've brought back the SD Card and Magsafe....aren't we wonderful.
To make things more confusing: When using Private browsing, the acrive/inactive tab color appears opposite of normal browsing.
Safari's Private browsing is also confusing because there is no clear indicator that you are using it. Sure, when you first open a Private window, there is some text at the top of the page. But that text goes away when you go to a website. At least Google Chrome shows the Incognito badge in the toolbar.
Safari's Private browsing is also confusing because there is no clear indicator that you are using it. Sure, when you first open a Private window, there is some text at the top of the page. But that text goes away when you go to a website. At least Google Chrome shows the Incognito badge in the toolbar.
Many people here live for fuss. Having that tiny blip of power to muster up a complaint helps get them through the day.
This version of IOS and Safari in the mac are classic examples of the “fixing something not broken” paradigm of changing for the sake of changing because we don’t have any thing new to show that is plaguing Apple since 2 years at least…
Thank you Gruber! I have been driven out of my mind by these things this last week.
That’s exactly what Apple is doing, change for changes sake. The little pill-like tabs on iPad OS and MacOS are unintuitive, use up more space (rounded corners and the padding needed for it) and in my opinion ugly. I can see how the address bar on the bottom on iOS is easier to reach, but the rest of the redesign is a disaster. Wish I could keep the old design.
Safari 15's controversial new design on the Mac has led to complaints about the way the browser indicates which tab is active.
As illustrated by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, there was never any ambiguity about which tab is active in previous versions of Safari, as an active tab is shown with lighter shading that matches the browser's toolbar.
In Safari 15, however, tabs have a new button-like design with a rounder and more defined appearance. Apple has also inverted its shading of tabs, with an active tab now having darker shading and inactive tabs having lighter shading. The change has annoyed Gruber and other users, as evidenced by this Reddit thread with nearly 1,000 upvotes.
"The design is counterintuitive," wrote Gruber. "What sense does it make that no matter your settings, the active tab is rendered with less contrast between the tab title and the background than background tabs? The active tab should be the one that pops."
In a Safari 15 window with two tabs open, especially from the same website, Gruber said determining which tab is active is basically a guessing game. Gruber acknowledged that it is easier to discern the active tab when more than two tabs are open, but he said the confusion with exactly two tabs should have been reason enough to scrap the design change.
"I can't tell you how many times I closed the tab that I needed because of this," one Reddit user expressed in frustration.
Unfortunately for users who do not like the new design, Apple has not made any changes to the shading of tabs in either the Safari 15.1 beta or the latest version of the experimental Safari Technology Preview browser.
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It looks like I am just 1 of 12 other people who like the new Safari... Its pretty cool and I've not had any crashes or web sites loading wierdly.
Amen.
This has never happened to me before either.
I’ve been on iOS since iOS 3 & the 3GS and I’m (reluctantly) very happy to still be on 14.8.
I’ll feel the same re staying on Big Sur too.
I’ve upgraded every version of macOS/OS X I’ve had since Tiger.
Truly a stunning dive in UX quality by Apple.