MacOS Tahoe - Title bar and Tab bar become transparent with multiple tabs

smftko

When using macOS Tahoe with the latest build the title bar becomes transparent when you have multiple tabs open making use extremely difficult.

Title bar should remain opaque (or at the least frosted) and the tab bar should remain opaque (or at the least frosted) so the tabs are visible.

ersion 0.99.136.3.1-rc (WebKit 623.1.8.0.0)

Tahoe (26)

laiz

Hey! Are you able to consistently reproduce this? If yes, a video of you doing so would be very helpful.

smftko

Here's a quick video of it happening. If I see other clear examples I will do another.

akshatpatel

Hey @smftko thanks for reporting this. We have already fixed this one internally, the fix should be released along with the next RC soon.

smftko

Thanks - looking forward to seeing soon.

Keep up the great work - Orion RC is my daily driver. I love seeing the progress.

smftko

Well it is much better but I am still seeing problems. Here is a screen recording using Version 0.99.136.4-rc (WebKit 623.1.8.0.0) that I updated to this morning.

JSiuDev

@akshatpatel Maybe merge #6032 here too. Seems to be the same.

Magebarf

Visiting some web pages and cmd-clicking links to open in a new tab, the newly opened page, when switching to the new tab, has been rendered way outside of the expected drawing area, going up beneath the URL bar and the full window

After a reload of the page it however shows up in the expected region...

No reproduction in Safari. and same behavior in Private Window. Will try a new clean profile shortly after submitting this

The starting URL from the screenshot above is https://www.northmill.com/se/kort/bankkort/ and the Cmd-clicked link is the link labeled "Läs mer om Betala senare" in the "Allt kan inte planeras" section just below the TrustPilot rating.

(Somewhat side story, but for the first time ever I've had to force quite Orion due to eating 28+GB of RAM, when my normal memory utilisation is generally at a very manageable level. This however coincided so neatly with the bug described above, would be a neat memory leak if that level of visible 😀)

Page rendered within the browser drawing area!
No loose items in the window panels! 😃

Version 0.99.137-beta (WebKit 623.1.8.0.0) Build date October 24, 2025 Mac mini (macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 build 25A362)

Tahoe (26)

Magebarf

Same behavior with new clean profile!

Anything rendered above where the tab bar is seems impossible to interact with, the normal functionality seems to still be within the UI elements that are visibly hard to make out due to the outside rendering.

Magebarf

Also, just reproduced this with 3 out of 3 attempts at other popular sites, so don't think it's too web page specific.

Even Cmd-clicking first link I see on apple.com gives the same result.

jhbarker

I also see this bug frequently (though I cannot reproduce it reliably). I can fix display of the given page by either refreshing, or sometimes by right-clicking in the toolbar.
Jason

lpep1

Steps to reproduce:

Open any job post on LinkedIn
Scroll down a bit until the header with the job title appears
The header background is transparent, causing the text to appear on top of the job post text
Compatibility mode, same issue
New clean profile, same issue
Safari has expected behaviour, the header background is opaque white

Expected behavior:
Header background is opaque instead of transparent

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion Version 0.99.125-beta (WebKit 616.1.22)
MacBook Air, Apple M1, MacOS 13.5.1 (22G90)

Image/Video:
Orion:

Safari:

deadfwd

Notice this from time to time as well on MacOS
Here is another example -

Over at https://californiainsider.com/

Vlad

deadfwd Can you record a video?

laiz

deadfwd
deadfwd
What you are describing is a separate bug, see #8344

deadfwd

In some testing, found it appears when you go out from a link in another app.
For example, same thing happens when I click a link from Mail and it opens in Orion.
However, in Orion if I go there directly it does not happen.

JSiuDev

Seeing this in Version 0.99.136.3.1-rc (WebKit 623.1.8.0.0)

Seems to happen often with lot of pages on medium.com, but not the main site. The issue may fix itself by switching tab.