Search Bar Disappears when using "Compact" Tab Layout

tardik

When the "Compact" Tab Layout is used, new Orion windows can be resized in a way that makes it impossible to search. The search bar seems to move into the overflow menu and become unfocusable (even CMD+Alt+F, CMD+L cannot focus the search bar).

Steps to replicate the issue (from a clean Orion install):

Set "Tab Layout" to "Compact"
Create a new window
Resize the window's width to the minimum amount possible

Notes:

This is does not happen in Safari when the same Tab Layout is set.
This bug does not happen with the "Standard" Tab Layout.
"Use Mini Toolbar" does not affect this behaviour.
If the setting for the tab layout is switched from "Compact" to "Standard" and back, the bug disappears for all windows that already existed, the minimum width seems to change too, but then it becomes quite large compared to for example Safari.

I would either expect Orion to not allow resizing operations that make the search bar disappear, or not move the search bar into the overflow menu. As window managers often resize windows to fit into the screen, Orion often appears without the search function for me.

Orion 0.99.132-beta; MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2

Sequoia (15)

Chengcheng_Xiao

@Yannick Sorry but I think I'm experiencing similar behaviour in Tahoe (26.1) with the latest 1.0 release.

Specifically, when the "Compact" Tab Layout is used, the search bar and tabs disappear when the window width is set to the minimum amount possible. This happens to ANY Orion window.

Also, the minimum amount possible for "Compact" Tab Layout is not half the width of the screen (13' MacBook Air M2), which makes it a bit hard to put windows side by side.

Steps to replicate the issue (from a clean Orion install):

Set "Tab Layout" to "Compact"
Create a new window
Resize the window's width to the minimum amount possible

Notes:

This does not happen in Safari, but Safari does not have Compact tab mode anymore.
This bug does not happen with the "Standard" Tab Layout.
"Use Mini Toolbar" DOES fixes this.

I would expect Orion to allow resizing window to half screen width while keeping the search bar tab bar visible.

Version 1.0.0 (139), WebKit 623.1.8.0.0; MacBook Air 13' M2 (macOS Tahoe 26.1 build 25B78)

Yannick

ok thanks we'll look into it!