@eirk, I don't know about front end dev, so I can only speak from a user's perspective. But keeping the colors as if you just had opened the tab is what I would think it should look like.
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Greyscale suspended tab icon/title is bad for accessibility
Then, what would be used to distinguish between a suspended tab and a non-suspended tab? I personally think that there needs to be some way to indicate that a tab has been unloaded.
eirk changed the title to Greyscale suspended tab icon/title is bad for accessibility .
eirk Good point. Maybe add a flag so the behavior can be toggled according to user's preference?
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Or adding a small "sleeping/suspended signal" icon to the tab? A small dot with a different color could be used, for example.
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oscarvarto Can you show a mockup of what would this look like?
We tried some ideas earlier:
1) showing a small symbol on top of favicon
2) and just reducing the brightness/opacity of favicon
Are any of these better than the current solution?
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Sorry for not replying sooner. Didn't notice the activity on the ticket.
Personally, I liked 01 from @bg-d previous response (showing a small symbol on top of favicon).
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I like 01, but the moon icon could probably be a little bigger, along with a slightly less opaque favicon (like 80% opacity i suppose)
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What does your feature entail? What is it for? How will it affect existing workflows or user experience?
Orion is superfast so I'm wondering if it's still necesarry to grey-out tabs in the sidebar to inform the user that tabs are inactive/paused. When I click a greyed out tab icon it loads instantly.
If not greyed out it would be much easier to the eye differentiate the various icons. It would make my browsing experience faster.
What are the exact ways that you see a user using your proposed feature? Please go into as much detail as possible, and provide examples of how other browsers/apps implement this feature, if applicable. If your feature suggestion adds on to an existing feature, how would it work into it to extend its usefulness?
In the future all tabs in tabgroups are fully visible (not greyed-out). Pausing tabs is a default way to save CPU resources but can be handled in the background. Users don't need to see this in my opinion, curious what others think of this.
Graying out suspended tabs was explicitly asked here few months ago and we delivered 
Vlad Hahaha so many users so many preferences. I can't see the use of it with the speed of Orion. Is it possible to add a toggle in settings?
janpeeters instantly
This doesnt always happen, and some websites may require a few seconds to load, so this is why the grey indicator is there - to tell users that the site is suspended and may take few seconds to load after clicking it
eirk Must be my speedy computer and connection ;-).
The greyed-out icons make Orion look like an old machine to be honest. It doesn't fit.
I've been thinking about another visual solutions but I'm afraid greyed-out looks most suspended.
I could do without so I hope a toggle will come.
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Vlad Is it possible to implement a setting where a user can choose to also have suspened (pinned) tabs in full colour. I find it hard to differentiate the small favicons when they're so dimmed. I can understand that people asked for this but accessibility-wise it's not a great choice. I hope this can be considered even if only through a 'defaults write' command line command. Thanks.
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