Always Incorrect Tab Switching & Arabic Text Rendering Issue on iPad

mjeed51

The bug occurs consistently on my iPad when the browser language is set to Arabic. When opening two or more tabs (e.g., Netflix in one tab and YouTube in another), the browser always displays the wrong tab title and favicon. Clicking on the Netflix tab opens the YouTube tab instead, and vice versa, causing incorrect tab selection and misleading tab labels.

Additionally, in the “View All Tabs” screen, some Arabic text at the top appears reversed (characters displayed in the wrong order), making it difficult to read.

This is the best and only browser I have found that fully supports Chrome extensions and runs them efficiently. I hope you can add a built-in Console and HTML view feature inside the browser itself — it would be an amazing addition. I also hope you continue developing it and making it even better.

I expected each tab to show the correct title and favicon corresponding to the website opened in that tab. When clicking on a tab, the browser should switch to that exact tab without mixing it up with others. Also, Arabic text in the “View All Tabs” screen should display correctly, without any reversed or misordered characters.

1.3.26(9)

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Would you mind sharing some screenshots of this?

mjeed51

RoxyRoxyRoxy

As shown in the screenshots, the tab content is swapped. For example, on the Netflix page, the Google link, page title, and favicon are displayed instead, and vice versa. This causes confusion and leads to problems when closing a tab, as the unintended tab gets deleted.

In the “View All Tabs” screen, the text in the tab search field appears reversed. Additionally, when typing in this field, both Arabic and English text appear reversed and unreadable.

Note: Even though the Netflix and Google tabs appear with the correct title and favicon in the “View All Tabs” screen, the selected tab is still swapped — for example, selecting the Netflix tab actually opens the Google tab.

I hope a fix can be released as soon as possible.

mjeed51

This bug occurred while using the Arabic language on an iPad (A16 chip) 11th Generation running iPadOS 18.5

mjeed51

Hi @RoxyRoxyRoxy ,

I hope you’re doing well.

I just wanted to kindly follow up on the bug I reported a few days ago. I saw it was marked as “under review,” and since it’s been about four days, I wanted to check if there have been any updates.

Also, if possible, do you have an estimate on when a fix might be released?

Thank you so much for your time and all the work you’re doing

RoxyRoxyRoxy

mjeed51 No updates to share yet, but I will 100% let you know when there are. I'll ping the dev team on Monday and see if any release estimate can be provided, I appreciate this is probably a very annoying issue to daiy drive with!

mjeed51

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Thanks a lot for following up on this! 🌸 I really appreciate you checking with the dev team. I totally understand these things take time, and it means a lot that you’re keeping me updated.

jeanetienne

Hi mjeed51, thank you so much for your patience and the detailed info you put in this ticket.

I've been able to easily reproduce the issue and worked on a fix. Although not making the experience for right-to-left (RTL) languages perfect it fixes the annoying bugs you described and a few minor UI inconsistencies.
This should be published in a new release soon.

Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!

mjeed51

jeanetienne

Thank you for getting back to me and for working on this issue.
I truly appreciate the effort you’ve put into improving the RTL experience and fixing the bugs I reported, along with the other UI inconsistencies.
I’m glad to contribute to making Orion better, and I look forward to trying the upcoming release.

Best regards,
Mjeed