Saved windows / profiles switching usability improvement

asktru

Speaking of profiles and workspaces, one of the things I love about Arc is the ease of switching between profiles in one swipe.
I have personal and work space, and personal and work profiles respectively.
And so I switch between those two contexts in one swipe of a sidebar, it's magical.

And when I open mini Arc window, I can then choose in which space do I want to open that window.

Orion has similar concepts, but UX of switching between saved windows / profiles could be improved to be as easy as in Arc.

For the people with vertical tabs, we could borrow idea from Arc: display small icons of the saved windows at the bottom of the sidebar, and allow switching between saved windows by either clicking on those icons or swiping the sidebar left or right.

For the people with horizontal tabs, we can see saved window title in the top left corner of the window - let us swipe that title left and right to switch between saved windows.

Also, regardless of the tab display settings, allow binding specific saved window to specific profile (might be a separate feature request, but it's still important). Example from Arc:

RihardsVeters

Thanks for submitting this feature request - wanted to do it myself, but Vlad somehow doesn't like my ideas - at least now this came from you 😃
Totally agree about spaces/profiles or in Orion case - Windows and Profiles. It's much easier to use everything in the same window not switching between multiple windows to use different profiles.

I've also made request about favorited tabs - across multiple saved windows, but as it came from me - nobody likes it here's the feature request : https://orionfeedback.org/d/9109-pinnedfavorited-tabs-accross-all-saved-windows-workspaces

sullimander

I've been trying Orion again after the Arc announcement that they are developing a different browser now, and only maintaining Arc. This is one of the best features of Arc. It makes it so easy to switch contexts, just swipe or hit the right hot key and you are there, all in one window.

Vlad

We hear you. We are working on design changes that will help address this.

rass

thanks Vlad and thanks all for the requests, wanted to +1.
great to see this worked on!

Simialr to others, I work at a few different orgs and keep my arc profiles sandboxed. I can quickly switch between them with cmd-option-left/right, and visually it's easy for me to do this in arc and keep track.

I tried with the current Orion implementation and couldn't quite get it to click.

My process:
Binding each of the four profiles to a hotkey ("m" "," "." "/").

The weirdness of opening a new application instance in the dock, and I often ended up with multiple instances of the same profile put me off attempting to dig any further.

For me, a great implementation of profile switching is the last feature I would need to switch over from Arc.

I guess Arc could be improved on... but I don't know how, honestly having the exact same experience would be ideal for me.