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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Toggle Vertical Tabs (on)
  2. Click "Bookmarks" in Library section of Sidebar
  3. Select File > New Tab
  4. Realise that the Tab Switcher UI is the only (hidden) way get a sense of open tabs in the current window. If disabled, Ctrl-Tab through the invisible tabs until you eventually get back to the original tab.

Expected behavior:
There should always be a 'simple' (or very least 'more evident') means in the UI to retain the user's "situational awareness" of their current browsing session, aka it shouldn't be so hard to know the current state of my browsing environment.

As a UX principle, of course there are many ways to achieve these ends, but this crosses over with so many existing or potential feature suggestions, I wanted to understand your current stance on this issue before delving deeper into suggesting UX approaches.

Orion, OS version; hardware type:

Orion 0.99.110.1-rc
macOS 12.1 (21C52)
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) - MacBookPro16,1

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    We should simply show the vertical tabs in this case

      So the proposed solution is?:

      1. I’m viewing the Bookmarks sidebar
      2. I create a new Tab
      3. I’m automatically taken back to the Vertical Tab sidebar
      4. I wanted to still view bookmarks, so I have to navigate back
      5. Repeat

      I guess that’s a temporary workaround.

      • Vlad replied to this.

        Vlad Allow the vertical tab sidebar to be shown alongside tabs at the same time? Perhaps an option for that.
        Also, the vertical tab's indentation is unnecessary.

            transeunt It is not perfect, but I do not know what else could be done now that the two have been merged?

                Fortrikka changed the title to Bookmarks Sidebar prevents visibility of vertical tabs .
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