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Being used to Arc, I have enabled the Vertical Tabs option in Orion. I now expect to switch tabs using the shortcuts ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓, however, I still have to use ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→, which I find quite unintuitive.

I’m aware that there is also ⌃⇥ and ⌃⇧⇥ to show the next/previous tab. Since those are the ones appearing in the Window menu, I tried customizing them to ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ in the macOS settings, but this doesn’t work properly. It interferes with page scrolling, for example, when I hit ⌥⌘↓, the current page will scroll to the bottom.

I see 3 options for addressing this issue:

1. Allow both ⌥⌘← / ⌥⌘→ and ⌥⌘↑ / ⌥⌘↓ for tab switching, no matter if horizontal tabs or vertical tabs are enabled.
2. Depending on whether horizontal or vertical tabs are enabled, only allow the respective pair (up/down for vertical tabs, left/right for horizontal tabs).
3. Only fix the page scrolling problem outlined above, so users can customize the shortcuts to be ⌥⌘↑ / ⌥⌘↓.

Options 1 and 2 are are preferred, as they will help users migrating from Arc without requiring further configuration.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Install Orion Version 0.99.127.2.1-rc

2. Create a fresh profile

3. Go to https://www.youtube.com

4. The front page is not displayed properly, see picture below
   

5. Enabling compatibility mode allows the website to be displayed correctly.

6. Disabling every list in the content blocker does not solve the issue.

7. Similarly manually applying all the changes done by enabling compatibility mode doesn't seem to do anything
   

8. Opening a direct video link, e.g.
   causes the video to play as expected but the video description, comments etc. are not displayed:
   

Expected behavior:
Youtube works as expected on the current beta build and worked just fine on previous RC builds as well. This is the case even when the content blocker is enabled.

Orion and macOS versions:
Version 0.99.127.2.1-rc (WebKit 619.1.1)

Sonoma (14)

Hello,

I regularly jump into the tabs view by mistake and I think 2 improvements would make my life easier:

• Having an easy way to go back to the last seen tab.
• Highlighting the last seen tab to identify it clearly.

To reproduce the "jump into the tabs view by mistake": scroll with weird fingers (maybe I am the issue haha).

I am adding a video when I am on a pinned tab, and the pinch brings me to a part of the tabs view where the tab I was not does not appear in the list:

About the keyboard shortcut:

1. Use weird fingers to accidently enter the tabs view.
2. Oops, that is not what I want.
3. Hit the keyboard shortcut (escape key?)
4. Back to the last tab, yeah!

About the highlighting of the last tab, here is my use case:

1. I have many tabs (in the video I have 5 pinned tabs and 10 standard tabs).
2. Do the pinch to enter the tabs view.
3. Oops, that is not what I want.
4. I can identify the tab I was on and click on it to get back to business.

These 2 improvements would help me (hopefully others too) a lot to exit the tabs view.

MacOS 14.4 (23E214), Orion RC Version 0.99.126.4.1.11-rc (WebKit 619.1.1)

Thanks!

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open two Start Page tabs
2. Attempt to switch between them by switing the address bar
3. Observe stuttering animations and occasionally some flashing white
   

Expected result:
Switching between two tabs of any kind should be smooth.
Currently switching between two tabs of any website works as expected but the poor performance starts once Start Pages are added into the mix.
an example of smooth tab switching:

Orion version:
1.3.7 (15) WebKit 8617.2.4.10.7)

iOS version:
17

The suggestion is simple: Support the recently introduced passkeys.

There is already a discussion of WebAuthn, here:

https://orionfeedback.org/d/197-support-for-webauthn

Moreover, the passkey feature is really WebAuthn under the hood, as far as I understand. So perhaps this feature suggestion should be merged with the above. But on the other hand, passkey usage seems sufficiently different from using a hardware token supporting WebAuthn to merit its own discussion.

Edit: I see this got tagged Desktop. I intended this suggestion to cover both desktop and iphone/ipad, but the web interface got the better of me.

Edit 2: I now see where I missed a rather obvious button. Apparently there is no way to make a suggestion for both categories at the same time.

A universal shortcut (Cmd + Shift + P is the muscle memory one from programs like VS Code) that brings up relevant actions based on what is happening. This does a couple of things:

1. Allows a fully keyboard-centric workflow, even without needing to learn keyboard shortcuts.
2. It allows the GUI to stay minimal and clutter-free as a lot of actions can be triggered via the command palette instead of needing to create buttons. Buttons can follow down the line if needed (this makes it faster to test new features).
3. (Subjective) It is faster to navigate an application this way than via buttons.

A simple command palette would be great. A more sophisticated one would be even better! E.g. surfacing each users most used actions as auto-suggestions before anything is typed, allowing keyboard shortcuts to be seen and edited within the command palette itself etc.

Steps to reproduce:
Open Orion and browse, leave it open for days, quit and relaunch.

Expected behavior:
uBlock Origin should autoupdate to the latest version but does not (both from Firefox and Chrome store). I have to uninstall and then reinstall it. It's my only extension which the developer updates frequently, so I can't tell if other extensions are affected (Simple Translate, e.g.)

Orion and macOS:
Orion 0.99.108.1-beta (Webkit 613.1.10)
Mojave 10.14.6 (18G9323)

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