Reducing width of vertical bar

DoD

I feel the vertical bar has a lot of wasted space when one is viewing only icons -

It's alright when I am viewing the names of the web pages.

vladribko

Comparing to other browsers orion takes a lot more space with its vertical tabs

can you please add a compact vertical tabs mode

It's unnecessary to use the space that you do just for a small favicon. you could make it less wide

thanks

Fortrikka

vladribko Also, there is no need to use Imgur. Website accepts dragged and drop.

Shadowknight

Duplicate of : https://orionfeedback.org/d/42-reducing-width-of-vertical-bar

transeunt

Alternatively, it could be nice if larger siteicons could be shown, but of couse in the wild many/most are likely to just have the 16x16 'old' standard, vs larger site icons offered for mobile browsers to "save to homescreen".

emvaized

I feel like in the expanded view with visible titles there's also a lot of unused horizontal space

Vlad

emvaized What unused space is discussed exactly? The only unused space is to the left of the down arrow but this is necessary for UX as otherwise control would be glued to the edge of the window.

emvaized

Vlad Sorry if it was unclear from my picture. I meant the padding between favicon and title, and also the padding to the left of favicon – which I think is "reserved" for the arrow, but clearly not every tab has one.

Vlad

emvaized Even if there is no arrow you need to keep hierarchy of the tree. I suppose we can reduce padding between favicon and title to be the same like on the left to the arrow. But any gains in space this way will be lost by the request to increase the title font from the other card.

emvaized

Vlad
Possible solution to this may be displaying the arrow above the favicon, the way it's done in Firefox's Sidebery:

And don't display it for expanded tree at all, since the indentation of child tabs already indicates the tree:

Or use VS Code-alike lines to highlight the tree structure – like in TreeStyleTabs with custom extension:

But I'm not sure, how well it would fit the Orion's design.

But any gains in space this way will be lost by the request to increase the title font from the other card

Which means, there will be no information loss if the font size gets increased 😀

thegovernor

I like the MS Edge implementation where you only get the icon of the site and when you hover it you get additional controls like close button etc. Unfortunately the vertical tab bar in Orion right now is too fat for me to use it.