Tulip

    • 7 days ago
    • Joined Jan 16, 2023
    • 1 discussion
    • 5 posts
    • 0 best answers
    • 4 points
    • Currently, even when the "Show Full URLs" option is enabled in Orion on mobile, the protocol is hidden. Which is to say: if I navigate to http://example.com,the address bar will display example.com. If I navigate to https://example.com, the address bar will still display example.com. This is important information that's being hidden! There are good reasons to avoid typing in passwords, for example, on non-HTTPS sites.

      As things stand, the only way to check is to tap on the address bar; the protocol will properly appear at that point, even if it doesn't appear in the resting view. But this is an awkward workaround, and really shouldn't be necessary.

      So I suggest modifying the address bar preview so that—at minimum for anyone who has "Show Full URLs" enabled in settings, if not for everyone else, since people with that setting enabled have pretty unambiguously opted into verbose URL readouts—it displays the protocol there directly. Make it so that the address bar preview after navigating to http://example.com is http://example.com, and the address bar preview after navigating to https://example.com is https://example.com, rather than both collapsing down into preview text of example.com and leaving the security status of the site unclear.

      • When using Orion on mobile, I noticed there is no option to manually sort the tabs. When I’m in “sidebar” or “grid” view, I always long-press on an open tab, thinking it will allow me to drag-n-drop arrange the tabs. It currently doesn’t work this way. And I think this could be helpful in situations where I have a number of tabs listed next to each other that don’t really have anything in common. Which creates a visual disconnect as I glance over.

        Keep up the great work!

        • This is a very useful Safari feature currently lacking from Orion.

          Note that Safari's version is likely also wrong -- the first line should rather be the link text.