Vlad This is probably the source of disagreement with users then. The URL bar is not that important to me; if it was, I wouldn't select a "compact" mode at all so it could have its own dedicated row.
The comments about Safari's design are really overblown in my opinion. I have never had any difficulty in Safari with finding the URL bar even though it "jumps around." It's exactly where I would expect it to be: attached to the relevant tab. And it's highlighted, no less.
But in Orion, I find compact tabs unusable. The active tab is darkened rather than highlighted (why?) but not even to a dramatic enough degree to make it stand out anyway. So I'm constantly having to scan "wait, which tab is this?" It also still makes zero sense to me when you have the URL bar on one side of the screen and the active tab on the other with several tabs between. The whole thing just feels like it was designed - like so many things these days - by a developer who has an ultrawide monitor.
At this point, I'm just giving up. It's been two years of waiting and periodically checking in for a sane approach to compact tabs. If the rest of the browser was just unimpeachably good, maybe I could deal with it, but in checking in this time, the first thing I did was try out vertical tabs and the browser crashed when I was trying to shrink them down into just favicons (yes I reported the crash), then when it reopened I went to reddit as a test and videos won't play. I don't know, man. I respect what you all are doing here but we clearly have different ideas what makes a browser good. All the best.
