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I've been recently configuring the Orion iOS client, and wow... this thing is neat! Love the higher configurability compared to the stock Safari.

I had a request -- I often read on the phone and would like the reading screen estate to be as large as possible. Would it be possible to add the "hide toolbar and address bar" command which exists at the moment in the website settings menu, also to the gesture commands or to the toolbar commands. Both of the latter are configurable, its just that the hide command is missing as an option.

How I imagine it to be used?
As a gesture, user should be able to configure one of the provided gestures, like left / right swipe, etc to hide the toolbar and bring it back (i.e., a toggle would be awesome). Likely, user should be able to click on a toolbar icon to hide the toolbar.

Happy holidays, soon!

  • Vlad replied to this.

    Now that I think about it a bit more, perhaps all the commands in the website settings (which make sense) can be added to the gestures or toolbar icons menus...

      Hi, yes the toolbars do minimize upon scrolling down. But if I scroll up, they reappear, and this toolbar coming in and out of view is a bit annoying / distracting. In fact, since I could set up gestures for the most frequent actions (swipe from left edge = go back, swipe from right edge = show tabs, 3 finger swipe = open new tab), I'd even prefer if the toolbar hidden / minimized could be set as default. Or something like the toolbar auto-minimizes after 1 sec and has to be manually tapped on to show the address bar and toolbar icons (a bit like auto-hiding macOS dock)...

        4 months later

        Some sites don’t scroll, but have an inner div that scrolls, while content is [partially] hidden behind the tool/address bar. Allowing a gesture to hide the bar would be very useful.

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