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In this thread: https://orionfeedback.org/d/7564-greyscale-suspended-tab-icontitle-is-bad-for-accessibility the moon icon was introduced for suspended tabs.

This is much better for accessibility, than a greyed out favicon, but for people with many pinned tabs the new moon icon over a favicon can cause visual distraction (see screenshot).

Also, on many modern systems in broadband areas suspended tabs load so fast that there is no reason anymore to know if a tab is suspended. Not for me anyway. I'm curious to read how others feel about this.

So I propose a setting that would deactivate visual indication of suspension. It would provide for a cleaner interface for those who don't care to know if a tab is suspended.

  • laiz replied to this.

    janpeeters Also, on many modern systems in broadband areas suspended tabs load so fast that there is no reason anymore to know if a tab is suspended. Not for me anyway. I'm curious to read how others feel about this.

    Just to quickly comment on this, it's less about the loading speeds and more about the resource usage (namely system memory). Having some visual indicator for whether the tab is using up memory is still valuable even in the gigabit fiber era.

        laiz

        I'm all for suspending tabs. And an indicator might be useful for some. I don't know how other browsers do this but I have not seen many indicators on tabs. They just pauze the tabs after a while afaik.

        • laiz replied to this.

            janpeeters
            My apologies, I completely missed the crucial word know in your original message. For some reason I interpreted the entire point as calling suspending unnecessary on modern hardware.

              4 months later

              Agreed on this, I've been using pinned tabs in Orion much like how they work in the Arc browser if you've used that. Orion has been great for me so far as the speed is so much better than that browser (plus the fact the developers have given up supporting Arc!). Having an option to disable the moon icons here would be great, as it doesn't bother me if they are suspended or not.

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