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Vlad right now there's the 3 dots menu button that can't be moved from the toolbar. I've raised the issue before, but I find this to be pretty annoying because it's a button that takes up real estate on the toolbar. I feel it would be better placed somewhere else, such as to the left of the address bar, within the tab switcher, or collapsed into the address bar popup menu (maybe as an option "menu" that brings it up). This was the main reason I had given on the thread regarding customizability of the toolbar—so I could remove the menu bar. Obviously Safari doesn't have to contend with having a menu bar since the menu is in Settings.app, but I think the 3-dots menu button would be better served being on the address bar line or within the tab switcher from a usability perspective, since the other toolbar buttons are actual toolbar buttons used fairly often, while menu is more of a "settings" button. I realize as you've mentioned before that many iOS browsers do this, but I feel it's misuse of space when the address bar already has a popup menu

To be clear, I don't like the idea of merging the address bar and toolbar into 1, as that conflates their purpose, and would make gestures much more limited due to the halved area from which to start A gesture. I do think the 3dots menu should be moved to the address bar or tab switcher though

  • Vlad replied to this.

      menubar Valid feedback, but best to open a new suggestion as not directly related to this feature.

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          This is possible in recent Orion for mobile!

            Vlad I haven't used iPadOS recently enough to know it isn't there, but I fail to see why this wouldn't be as good of an idea of tablet as mobile. Toolbar customization is honestly an incredibly underimplemented feature on mobile/tablet.

            Also, I can't confirm off the top of my head, but I bet iCab has it, although I wouldn't use that as a UI guide. It's pretty clunky even on desktop. I agree toolbar customization should be brought to iPadOS as well though. Features that are left as simple options are great because they don't get in the way of a casual user, yet go a little extra for those that really want to personalize their experience

            • Vlad replied to this.

                menubar It is hard because the APIs would be different and would require significant refactor of Orion. So for that reason I am going to close this and suggest people open a new one that is iPad specific for us to gauge interest.

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