1 - clean / more MacOS like
I would go with 4 that reminds me of the shadow effects of Safari 4 but in the same time it feels oldish.
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Compact tabs
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Primary vote - 3
Secondary vote - 1
Vlad 5 holds the most water for me because of its similarity with the current tab theme in its normal horizontal display. However, I am not digging the specifically designated shaded space for the tabs. It makes them feel detached from everything else. And I understand the importance of allocating the space for them, but the way it is done in this instance feels inappropriate. It's hard for me to put my finger on what it is that puts me off. But a part of me thinks that cutting out the toolbar so that there is like, a pocket of which the tabs can occupy instead of being another thing that the toolbar so happens to have.
I have absolutely no graphic design talent so I will have to describe what I am talking about.
So, I imagine lowering the bottoms of the tabs so that they are flush with the border of the toolbar. this will cause these tabs to be misaligned with everything else. so, with that extra headspace above the tabs, that can be for folders or similar to lay right on top of the tabs so to allow quick navigation between batches of tabs for organization with the now limited space.
Vlad 2 or 4
7thripr I was thinking about this earlier. As it stands, having both "www.google.com" in the address bar and "Google" in the current tab is a bit redundant, so I like this idea in principle. However, implementing it in a way that feels natural would be tricky... For most layouts I've been able to think of, it's overall worse — i.e. the weirdness is increased more than the redundancy is decreased.
The only thing I can think of that might work: Remove the address bar from the toolbar entirely, and only have it appear (replacing the current page's favicon and title) when you click on the currently-selected tab (or hit ⌘L). This would potentially work quite well with Option 2, actually, since they already use the same border style as the address bar…
Kagi team, if you'd like a mockup of this, let me know, and I'll see what I can do! 
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- very basic, but id rather have something to distinguish between a tab and the rest of the toolbar
- also very basic, the borders are really nice, but a bit too much horizontal space wasted
- the focused tab floating above everything else feels very off and unnatural
- the shading here really helps distinguish between the tabs and the rest of the toolbar, and the grey isn't too much
- similar to 3, but its too much depth here. also, the left side when the leftmost tab is
- seems like the opposite of 1,seems to me that everything is selected except the focused tab
ranking (best to worst)
4 2 1 5 6 3
eirk Ha, oops! I've never used that feature in Safari, so I didn't realize my idea was so similar 
After testing it out just now, my proposal was slightly different, as it would show the favicon and title by default, rather than the URL, but otherwise it's exactly the same as Safari's implementation, yes (and I'm not even very attached to the one thing that's different).
2 gets my vote. Definitely the sleekest without being the most in your face. Still are able to differentiate tabs easily.
Can someone summarize the votes? Like 2 points for first choice and 1 points for second choice.
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2 points for first choice, 1 point for second choice. On tossups or no clarification on which is first of their 2 choices they both get 2.
- 28 votes
- 29 votes
- 13 votes
- 4 votes
- 10 votes
- 3 votes
No matter how it's counted it seems 1 and 2 are both favorites. Maybe an option between the two?
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2 for sure. It looks closest to Safari’s compact mode. In dark mode, I'd like the active tab to be brighter rather than darker.
1 is my second choice.
1 would be my primary choice however I would like to see an option with the url bar integrated into the tab, like it is in safari.
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Johnnyvm @Vlad I agree with this, I hate 1 & 2 because it feels too much like safari. I switched to Orion because I wanted something a bit different, not exactly the same. (otherwise there’s no point in switching)
#6 is less jarring and the tabs don’t jump around as much. It’s clear which tab is currently active. It’s beautiful, clean, predictable, I LOVE it.
FYI, The URL should update in the mockup upon switching tabs, but it currently doesn’t.
If I was forced to pick between 1 & 2, I’d pick 1.
ForumNinja404 I hate 1 & 2 because it feels too much like safari. I switched to Orion because I wanted something a bit different, not exactly the same. (otherwise there’s no point in switching)
So if the aesthetics are the same, there’s no point in switching? Despite the numerous changes that aren’t aesthetics? Lol