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Currently the tab bar works like in Chrome - tabs only spread to the current width of the window, without scrolling, and when they fill the space they start collapsing, until they only show the favicon. I would love to have an option for it to work like in Safari, with non-collapsed tabs and a scrollable tab bar.

I've opened a bunch of tabs with Apple documentation in a window and it looks like this:

They all look the same, so in order to find the specific class or tutorial I'm looking for, I need to look through all tabs checking the previews, which takes way too much time. This is a deal-breaker for me.

If I turn off tab favicons, it looks like this, which is even worse since I can't even tell which pages are Apple documentation and which are something else:

Safari has such option now which toggles between tabs gradually narrowing, and tabs starting to scroll but never getting narrower:

  • Vlad replied to this.

    mackuba Right I can also see that in Orion if you turn off show "favicons inside tabs" titles go away so it is an additional bug.

    Is it me or safari does not have an option to disable favicons in tab titles? How would these two options co-exist?

        Vlad Safari 14 had an option to show favicons, but scrolling tabs (default behavior in <14) was only a hidden setting. So it was an option between: scrolling tabs with text / collapsed tabs with favicons.

        In Safari 15, there's an option to disable collapsing tabs, but the favicons option is gone, kind of replacing it. So you now have a choice between: scrolling tabs with icons / collapsed icons. I guess they've decided that few people wanted just text, or that those who set it that way only did it because it also enabled scrolling.

            But of course here these could be two separate options for 4 possible combinations, although I'm not sure if the "collapsed tabs with only very truncated labels" combination makes much sense?… The other three might.

            • Vlad replied to this.

              mackuba Right that is why I ask how would the settings UI work for this. There are people who do not like favicons in tabs which is why we kept the option.

                  I think these 3 are all reasonable choices for different users:

                  • I want to see favicons because they let me recognize the site at a glance, but also always see longer titles to recognize the specific page (which implies scrolling) <- this is me
                  • I want to see favicons because they let me recognize the site at a glance, but want the tabs to collapse so that I can fit as many of them on one screen as possible, and the favicons are enough for me to tell what is what
                  • I don't want to see favicons because they distract me and I want to see only the titles instead, and I don't want them to be collapsed, because at some point they become "…" like on the 2nd screenshot above, which makes it pointless, and that also implies scrolling

                  So this sounds to me like either a popup button with 3 options, or 3 radio buttons, or 2 related checkboxes where one of them gets disabled in one combination. Or, I suppose, just let people choose the 4th option if that somehow makes sense for them?

                    Tab Titles:
                    Collapse into favicon
                    Keep minimum size with favicon
                    Keep minimum size without favicon

                    @mackuba something like this?

                      Hmm… Maybe:

                      Tab bar style:

                      • Collapsing tabs with icons
                      • Scrolling tabs with icons
                      • Scrolling tabs without icons

                      That sounds good, thanks.

                        4 months later

                        THIS! I miss tab scrolling so much from previous versions of Safari!

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