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Suggestion:

Make vertical tabs bar auto minimize when not used and then maximize width on mouse hover.

Kind of like how Edge does it. It’s super convenient!!

Showing full width vertical tabs all the time is one of the deal breaker why I can’t use Orion as my daily driver now.

Also I’d like if tree/nested style were optional.

I always hated that feature in other vertical tab managers. Feels like I’m spending more time organizing that tree than doing actual work because it’s never intuitive to me what opens where.

3 months later

It would be nice to have an option for the virtical sidebar to be reduced to favicons, and automatically collapse and expand upon hover. Functionality-wise it's exactly like the sidebar on this post

  • Vlad replied to this.
    Merged 5 posts from Minimize side bar with tabs for using screen space more efficiently.
      Merged 3 posts from Floating Vertical Tab Sidebar.
        Merged 17 posts from Better "minified" vertical tabs UI.

          Microsoft Edge allows vertical tabs in either a "compact" mode where only thumbnails are shown, or a full-width toolbar mode, as shown in this article (https://www.howtogeek.com/697986/how-to-enable-and-use-vertical-tabs-in-microsoft-edge/ links don't seem to work for me...). I would appreciate this sort of mode or a keyboard shortcut to show/hide the tab bar as screen real estate is at a premium when I'm using my laptop on the go. Thank you!

            3 months later

            One of the reason I use edge as my daily web browser is that it has vertical tabs. not only that but it also has the option to collapse the side bar so it's minimized and out of the way so that I can maximize my screen for the contents of the website; and when I want to browse my tabs, upon mouse hover, it expands the side bar so I can fully read the titles.

            When I heard that Orion is doing similar but with Webkit, I was so excited! So can U please consider giving us this option? cause that and PWAs were the two main features I missed when using Safari.

            tnx in advance and keep up the good work

              TheOtherKai Yeah it kinda exist but the implementation is not the same as edge. U see Edge has the option to minimize the sidebar automatically so your screen real state is maximized. and whenever you hover over the side bar it collapses to show the name of the tabs so you can see all your open tabs at a glance. and in my opinion that's very useful.

              but here at Orion U have to manually hide and show the sidebar from the menu bar which is not convenient at all.

                7 days later

                TheOtherKai yeah you are right. but it would be nice to have this feature at anytime not just when the browser is in full screen

                    Merged 7 posts from The Ability to collapse the vertical tabs sidebar like Edge.
                      a year later

                      A smaller width for the icon-only vertical tab would be great. Also it will keep the traffic light buttons not off centered.

                        also the arrow for sub-tab is really inconsistent

                          Merged 3 posts from Smaller width for the vertical tab.
                            Merged 11 posts from Compact display of vertical tab bar.
                              a month later

                              One option so that the traffic lights do not get in the way would be to do it like this:
                              all the toolbar icons would be on top, and the sidebar would not intersect with the toolbar.

                              a few problems - if this were to happen, the sidebar would feel more like a second-class citizen, as part of a webpage rather than part of the app. also, it would look a bit weird if bookmarks bar was enabled

                              • eirk replied to this.