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Steps to reproduce:

  • Just restart Orion. It seems a bit inconsistent though, sometimes it does show the page title.
  • I've noticed it being an issue for GitHub and GitLabs so far.
  • Looks like Safari does show the page title every time I've tried.

Expected behavior:
I'm used to Firefox showing me the last known page title. This makes it easy to know what is on each tab without me having to navigate to it.

It's more helpful for me to see "Pull request for feature X" than "github.com".

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Version 0.99.115.1-beta (WebKit 614.1.12)

Image/Video:

    Also, I just noticed that sometimes a recent page title is shown but it's out of date.

    • Vlad replied to this.
      13 days later

      Vlad For me all I need to do is open some GitHub tabs and then restart the browser. Gave as much info as I could think of in the OP.

        Looks like this is related to Safari saving titles of tabs too. So it shows them on restart while Orion just shows domain. We can fix that.

        2 years later

        When restoring a Tab Group (aka Window) in Orion, tabs start out as deactivated (grayed out). In this state, titles are not shown until a tab is clicked, nor a thumbnail is available in the Ctrl+Tab switcher or Tab Overview page. The tab hierarchy expanded/collapsed state is also not maintained - tab tree starts out collapsed. This makes it harder to find the needed tab until all tabs are reloaded.

        It would be great if the browser would automatically save the state so that on restoring the Tab Group, at least titles would be available. Ideally, the Tab Group state would look exactly like when it was when the window was closed, except without automatically loading the tabs - still start out being deactivated (grayed out).


        The feature would greatly reduce the time it takes to find the right tab after restoring a Tab Group (aka Window).

        • Vlad replied to this.
          12 days later

          ronald I believe this was already requested and would apprecite if you could lcoate the thread so I can merge it in for unified collection of upvotes

            • Edited

            The feature can allow users to quickly overview the saved tabs in a saved windows after reopening it.
            It will allow users to see the name of each tab.

            currently if you reopen a saved window you can't see the names of the tabs in that windows.
            see video

            1. the user reopens a saved window from suspended state/not active.
            2. the user sees the names of each tab immediately (no need to expand the tree to see the subtabs) and the user doesn' need to click on each tab to reload it to see its name.

            Here is how Safari handles it:

            • Vlad replied to this.

              mazil Can you find a similar post asking us to save tab titles so I can merge this

                Merged 3 posts from Reload each page after opening a saved window.

                  Vlad

                  i can't seem to find another post that contains similar information.
                  Do you need more clairifications?

                    I found these:
                    https://orionfeedback.org/d/2442-suspended-tabs-show-domain-but-not-page-title
                    https://orionfeedback.org/d/6814-missing-tab-titles-in-vertical-tree-mode
                    https://orionfeedback.org/d/6721-side-tab-view-missing-titles-and-disorganized-on-restart

                    Related:
                    https://orionfeedback.org/d/5255-feature-focus-last-visited-tab-when-reopening-suspended-window

                    Possibly there are more, I went through first 20 pages of the 100+ pages of search results. My apologies for the delay, I put off this task too much.
                    Thanks for contributing @mazil!

                    And thanks to the Orion dev team for your work on the browser, I really like it already and use it a lot!

                    5 days later
                    Merged 8 posts from Save Tab Titles and Thumbnails for Tab Groups (aka Windows).

                      When a window is suspended or orion is restarted. All of the tab names fall back to the URL names. These names are only restored on load. This makes inspection/organization of tabs hard as you basically need to reopen all tabs to get their real names.

                      I know that the name is persisted to the plist file .local_named_windows.plist so this should hopefully a relatively simple lift.

                      Note: This may have implications for:
                      https://orionfeedback.org/d/79-tab-folders/22

                        a year later
                        Merged 1 post from Persist Tab Name to Side Bar after restart/suspend.

                          On restarting the application with side view tabs, tab heirarchies may be incorrect and tab titles may show domain names instead of the last title.

                          Reproduce:

                          1. New profile
                          2. Enable side view tabs
                          3. Using side view tab pane, create a new window and name it
                          4. In the new window, navigate to a website (I have verified this with wikipedia and youtube)
                          5. Right click 2 links and open them in new tabs (should be heirarchal descendents of first tab)
                          6. Move one of the new tabs above the first tab (should now be at the top level)
                          7. Open the tab that was just moved
                          8. Right click another link and open it in a new tab (there should now be 2 top level tabs each with 1 child)
                          9. Suspend both top level trees
                          10. Quit Orion (don't close window, fully quit profile)
                          11. Start profile again: the moved tab will now be a child of the first tab again and some inactive tabs will have the domain name for a title

                          A couple of criticisms I have of my report and repro steps:

                          1. there may be two separate issues here
                          2. I have not tested anything similar for losing top view tab titles
                          3. this series of steps may not be the most succinct. I'm not sure step 9, suspending, is really necessary nor whether rearranging the tabs is necessary to lose titles or what kinds of rearranging are necessary for organization to be lost

                          I could maybe provide screenshots or a video if desired.

                          When using side view tabs, reopen application with all tabs organized the same, all tab titles populated as before

                          0.99.126.3-beta (WebKit 618.1.2)

                          Sanoma (14.1.1)

                            It's not clear in my initial report but the repro steps are sort of the "best case" scenario. For example, I just restarted and the top level tabs are somewhat rearranged, children of various nested cases are now at the top level, etc. I'm hoping whatever solves the easy case I've demonstrated will be generalizable to the larger experience I have.

                            Furthermore, I've noticed some unexpected behavior with pinned tabs that feels related. I'm planning on delaying making a bug for that until after this is fixed as I also wonder if this fix will generalize to that. I can't neatly phrase the issue I've seen there without going through the effort to make it reproducible but I thought I would mention it in case it is of interest here.

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