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Merged 3 posts from Standard tab bar appears too dark when opening a new window.

    I tend to use multiple Orion windows across 2 screens and use Orion's Low Power Mode to auto-suspend inactive tabs.

    However, I find that when an Orion window is out of focus, it can be particularly difficult to read tab titles/icons of suspended tabs (with them being close to unreadable on a low-PPI display with poorer colors compared to a Retina display).

    Vertical tabs:

    Horizontal tabs:

    Could the grayscaling of suspended tabs use a brighter shade (but still dimmed) to make them more visible? Alternatively, Orion could mimic the behaviour of Firefox when only the favicon is dimmed to indicate a suspended tab.

    • Vlad replied to this.

      nnyms This is a duplicate, can you help find the original o i can merge

          Leirk marked this discussion as a potential duplicate of
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            @Vlad @Leirk If I understand it correctly, the mentioned post is related to a bug about a slightly different issue.

            To summarize, I see 4 cases:

            1. A focused window with no suspended tabs. This to me is perfectly fine, though in the mentioned post it seems to be dimmed due a bug.

            2. An out-of-focus window with no suspended tabs. I feel this would benefit from colored favicons and increased brightness (but still dimmed to differentiate it from a focused window), though I still find it readable in its current state.

            3. A focused window with some suspended tabs. This to me is also fine, normal tabs are not dimmed and have full color favicons, and suspended tabs are dimmed.

            4. An out-of-focus window with some suspended tabs. This case is the reason for my post - I find the suspended tabs to be borderline unreadable on my low-PPI display.

              An alternative solution may be to emulate what Chromium does when it puts tabs to sleep (see screenshot from linked article).

              Chromium makes changes to the tab favicon, as well as very slightly dimming the tab. It is likely they decided on this approach so that users can more easily tell if a pinned tab is sleeping/suspended (because pinned tabs only show the site favicon) or for cases where many tabs are open (see above image).

              Merged 5 posts from Improve visibility of suspended tabs when window is out of focus.

                nnyms I’d agree that this might be two separate-but-related issues. @Leirk’s original issue about all tabs being too dim seems to make dimmed suspended tabs that @nnyms reported even dimmer.

                Screenshot attached, hopefully showing both cases in one window.

                    Leirk @johnmatula can you please help us to get relible steps to reproduce this locally? We are aware about suspended tab UI issue, but we are unable to reproduce the issue where whole tab bar is getting dimmed, so we need your help.

                        dino Yep, happy to help!

                        First, I followed these steps: I created a new test user on my Mac, opened Orion (keeping in mind that the “standard” tab layout is the default setting), and… the dimmed tab bar was already visible.

                        If it helps, I also attached two samples of my Orion process:

                        • orion_a_newwin.txt: I open a new Orion window.

                          • Pre-condition: Orion app is running with zero browser windows open.
                          • Action: I open one new browser window.
                          • End: Sample ends with one browser window open with issue visible.

                        • orion_b_prefs.txt: I toggle between tab layout Preferences—from default-selected Standard, to Compact, to explicitly-selected Standard.

                          • Pre-condition: One Orion browser window open (with issue visible, for me) and Orion Tabs preference pane is open.
                          • Action: I focused the preference pane where “standard” was selected by default. I click “compact,” which changes the tab bar’s layout. I then immediately click “standard,” which changes the tab bar’s layout again.
                          • End: Sample ends with one Orion browser window showing expected, undimmed tab bar.

                        Any other info I can send?

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