Larger icon/show title for pinned tabs in sidebar + Favorites in sidebar

Tinholoco

Pinned tabs are great, however they are shown way to small with respect to regular tabs, and their order changes as you switch between them which makes not a lot of sense because I want my pinned tabs to be always in the same position and much more visible.

eirk

so... what do you suggest? pls also compare with other browsers like safari, firefox, and chrome.

Tinholoco

I suggest pinned tabs are truly pinned just like they are in the arc browser, with larger icons and a fixed order.

Vlad

Tinholoco In Orion they are "truly" pinned and are in fixed order. Can you clarify your statement?

Tinholoco

They are not:
to replicate: pin some tabs, select one of them which cannot be the first in the top left, close the app (not necessarily quit), open the app and that last pinned tab you were on will now be the first of the pinned tabs.

Also, is it possible not to have tabs' icons fade when they are not loaded?

Vlad

Tinholoco

to replicate: pin some tabs, select one of them which cannot be the first in the top left, close the app (not necessarily quit), open the app and that last pinned tab you were on will now be the first of the pinned tabs.

Can you upload a video of this?

May I ask why did you not post these steps to reproduce in the original post but you are leaving us to guess what you meant?

jackTabsCode

I'm looking for the pinned tabs to be larger and actually show the window title-more than just an icon.

leavism

Putting in my vote for making pinned tabs in vertical mode a little bigger! They're so small, I keep accidentally clicking the mute icon when I'm trying to click on the pinned YouTube tab.

Vlad

They were bigger, then users asked to be smaller. Now they are standard icon size.

ragokan

Putting my vote for something like this.

arcmover

With the recent Arc issues, Orion is getting a lot of mentions. I think adding this could bolster the userbase more than you'd expect.

I think what OP was trying to describe was the large Arc-style buttons as pinned tabs. If you can implement these, I'll definitely be moving here.

Please add the option to make pinned tabs into buttons, perhaps with a slight dimming when the page is unloaded. Up to 12 icons, resizeable.

Thanks

Vlad

arcmover What is the benefit of having large buttons, and still same size of favicons as Orion already has? Seems like just a bad design choice, that is also reducing the size of content that can fit on the sidebar.

jackTabsCode

Vlad I think that we kind of just want a similar UI/UX as Arc

Vlad

jackTabsCode I understand that, I am trying to understand what is the benefit for the user of having that?

ragokan

Vlad

I am not just saying that icons should be bigger, but mostly saying that they can have title like:

Benefits for me, easier tab management, knowing content etc. I guess it can always be in options for user to select size/hide title but that is totally up to you.

arcmover

Vlad

The benefit is that having a large clickable button is quicker to switch between frequently tabs. Logos are recognized by the brain quicker than text. And a large square button is easier to click than a thin invisible bar.

Also, are more choices ever a bad thing? Allow for a toggle switch on and off.

Please and thanks!

Vlad

arcmover

Also, are more choices ever a bad thing?

Yes if your entire dev team is 4 people 🙂 (and we have 2000 open issues, mostly bugs, to deal with). Adding more choices/settings means more work and more code to maintain and it explodes exponentially quickly.

Afaik that behavior is not native on Apple, and if you have an example from a native Mac app that does this (Arc isn't one) in any similar way we would like to check that.