Sidebar collapsible into favicons, with titles expanding upon hover

s2e3440z

I've been using the following implementation of the sidebar alongside Firefox for the past few years.

I believe a collapsible sidebar would be beneficial for smaller screens - as sites are easily identifiable with the sidebar favicon, and full page titles are given upon hover.

rikavoort

s2e3440z I don't like this. I don't like the fact that you have to use the mouse. Perhaps a keyboard toggle would be better, albeit still not in line with native macOS standards, as there aren't any applications which show the sidebar like that.

adorabilis

This would be a welcome addition for the vertical tabs people. As long as the hover duration to expand the sidebar isn’t an eternity like Microsoft Edge’s version, I vote for it.

s2e3440z

rikavoort Well, keyboard shortcuts still work fine - in my opinion, the only time I would ever need to see the titles are if I was hovering over to click them, otherwise, cmd+1...cmd+9 and ctrl+tab are great based only off of favicons.

TheOtherKai

Auto-expanding UI elements are not advised by macOS guides, according to Vlad. Better to have something similar to what safari has with it's spaces bar that activates from shortcut and mouse

Small amount of shameless self promotion
https://orionfeedback.org/d/378-way-to-hide-vertical-tabs-in-full-screen-mode