Remove sticky headers as browser option

carl

Would it be possible for Orion to have an option in preferences to disable css sticky property by default on all websites, letting the user enable sticky on a site-by-site basis? Sticky headers are an annoyance for most desktop users, and probably many mobile users. This suggestion could also be expanded to let the user specify some CSS or JS rules in a better way than currently, but honestly I think an option to kill sticky is a good start that would cover 90% of use cases.

To implement, the "sticky" property would just be changed to "relative" by the browser on any CSS element it finds.

Another suggestion for this kind of feature is an option to force all fonts to be black and force all backgrounds to be white. With site-by-site exceptions.

A user who hates sticky headers will enable this option in preferences, and if it breaks any website or workflow, they can re-enable sticky css on the domains they prefer.

A user who doesn't care for this will not be affected.

What do you fellas think?

Vlad

carl I use kill sticky as a bookmarklet a lot but I do not feel a website option would benefit because I would probably forget to use it (as the sites I use it on are usually very different).

eirk

kill-sticky is one of the predefined programmable buttons: https://github.com/OrionBrowser/ProgrammableButtons

carl

eirk Yes, I noticed that and thought it was very cool! However, with a browser option, you won't have to click the button every time.

carl

Vlad That's why my suggestion is to let the user have automatic kill sticky as a browser-wide option, that they can disable on a site-by-site basis. Safari (and Orion) have wisely implemented reader view this way, so that the user can set the browser to open every web page in reader view by default and disable reader view on a site-per-site basis.

There are of course other options that could be offered to the user in the same way.

eirk

@Vlad done, with page tweaks