Sidebar open/close on hover
The tricky part with this feature is knowing when to collapse the sidebar. Some apps handle this poorly, where they collapse the sidebar as soon as the mouse leaves the open sidebar. Toonlink’s demo looks good, but doesn’t take into consideration how this works when the window isn’t full-screen.
The way I’ve implement this on websites and custom apps with sidebars is if the pointer passes through the left side of the window and out of the pane, the sidebar opens and doesn’t collapse until the pointer is back in a non-sidebar part of the window. This saves the user from having to carefully keep the pointer inside of the sidebar area to keep it open.
I haven't seen this on the release candidate build yet, unless there is a setting I need to turn on?
Oh wow, is this really going to be implemented?? I can't wait! Hopefully soon on RC!
laiz I really appreciate this! I cannot overstate how this is important feature to me. I like Vertical Tabs because I have LOTS of tabs opened at once and in horizontal view, you cant see anything.
The downside of vertical tabs is that it takes too much real estate of the web view. Chromium-based browsed have had this auto show/close for some time hence why I used those browsers (brave, arc).
So this feature means a return to Orion for me! And if it really it smoothes out everything, it will ve a good time to purchase that lifetime license. I had some issues where Orion RC was freezing often when coming from suspended state (when I wake up Macbook), but cant reproduce steps. Nevertheless, this thread is about tabs and I am happy for the feature!
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This will entail modifying the display of vertical tabs to automaticallly collapse as they do in Zen Browser, only when hovering over the left side of the screen then they should appear to leave more space for browsing without the vertical tabs showing all the time
Collapsible vertical tabs can provide a more clean experience and less clutter as Zen Browser does. When hovering over the left side of the screen the vertical tabs show with only a thin bar showing only the icons. This is extremely useful when having multiple tabs and helps to concentrate on one page at a time.
Please add a way to disable the auto-hide feature on the sidebar. When browsing pages that already have a sidebar navigation, the sidebar keeps jumping in the way (Version 0.99.131.2-rc (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4)).
love to see progress on this, it already feels so much nicer to use orion with the sliding sidebar in the latest rc, the design and ux can be iterated on, but this is so nice, huge thanks!
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No change ever makes everyone happy, it would seem! But further down, I'd love a way to disable the auto-hiding feature (as I currently don't use the sidebar at all). 
I don't understand why this feature would be introduced, turned on automaitcally for everyone, and not have a way to turn it off.
aexvir How do you enable the sliding sidebar? I do not see it in the RC? I am on the latest version!!
quantumgolem I wanna echo this sentiment a lot. I love Orion because it's mostly native, but I can have all the customizations, power features, and so many other things that doesn't make sense for Apple to support in-house. Safari is great for the average user, but for those of us who are looking to do a lot more with our browser, we can have all the niceties of Safari with so much extra.
Also, the feature seems to be working intermittenly for me, but it's a nice QoL upgrade!