I was a fan of Safari's previous "compact" tabs mode in which there was only ONE bar on the top of Safari windows, the search box was literally inside the selected tab. has this disappeared?
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Safari - compact tabs - gone?
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Yup it’s gone in the current betas. :-(
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Yeah not there currently. Already submitted feedback myself. I know a lot of people hated compact tabs, but I was a massive fan. Hoping they just hadn’t got around to updating them for liquid glass yet and they make a comeback.
I fear it's precisely due to all the irrational hate the feature got at launch (including on these very forums) that it never received the needed attention, maintenance and updates throughout the few years of its existence and has now been axed entirely.
I also blame John Gruber, for possibly being the main opponent of the feature. I saw multiple times citations of his articles about how it's wrong because the dynamic colors and inbuilt URLs and pill-shaped tabs make him uncomfortable and don't "look like real-world tabs" and how he wants his beloved separate bars instead. Weird guy. To think he created Markdown...
Little did he know, pill shaped tabs are back with a vengeance. And this time they are mandatory.
Made me "uncomfortable", too. Here's an old example of two windows where, in each case, the first tab is active.
Tahoe is at least slightly better about this due to tabs looking vaguely three-dimensional...
Second version makes sense. First one just looks like a bad design decision. Making the active tab dimmer than the inactive ones would look wrong regardless of tab shape.
Then I have bad news for you considering what tabs on dark backgrounds look like in Tahoe...
Yeah this Safari version seems like a downgrade in every single way...