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I would find it useful to more easily check the active saved window when the sidebar is open. When it is closed, this is easy to check since it is displayed in the toolbar next to the sidebar icon.

However if the side bar is open to show vertical tab icons, the name of the window disappears, and it is less clear which saved window is active. There is just a small, basic icon with a fixed color that seems to be shrinking as new features are added.

I often use multiple saved windows for different dev/deploy environments with similar appearance, and it is of course crucial that I verify which window is active before taking any action. So it would be helpful if I could more easily and clearly determine the active window with a quick glance upwards.

I see this being an optional setting that more prominently shows the active saved window with a quick glance up toward the toolbar. If practical, a new item for toolbar customization could serve this purpose by allowing an icon and/or name that updates as the active window changes. Another approach might be something like the current option to enable the profile name and/or icon in the address bar.

    eirk Sorry I wasn't clearer on what I am looking for. I do understand that widening the sidebar will display the window name in a small font above the tabs. However I much prefer to collapse the sidebar down to only show the tab icons, as shown in the image I attached. It is more compact, and I find it less distracting without the visual clutter of the titles.

    So what I was looking for was a better way to check the active window while still taking advantage of the ability to collapse the sidebar down to just the icons. I did try turning off Always show website titles in tabs to see if I could widen the sidebar a bit and get the window name without all the titles, but that didn't have any effect. While that would have been an improvement if it did work, it is still a small, out of the way target. Something like the window name shown in the toolbar when the sidebar is closed would be more useful imo.

    But I get that this is probably a rather specialized use case. Anything that allowed clear identification of the active window with a compact sidebar would be an improvement. As it stands, unless I am missing something, the only information available is small icon that just got smaller, drawn from a set of icons that is so small that it is difficult to even pick something that meaningfully represents the purpose of the window.

      I think that its would likely be possible to still show the window title in the sidebar, even when it is compacted all the way down

      Would that fix your issue?

        eirk Yes. That would definitely help. It seems likely to be the simplest solution, and it would provide enough to clearly verify the active window when needed. Thanks for your consideration.

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