olivec

  • Jul 5, 2023
  • Joined Jul 2, 2023
  • 3 discussions
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  • 15 points
  • In Reducing width of vertical bar

    Vlad Well, I know y'all are a native Mac app and trying to respect the design paradigm, but if I agreed with all of Apple's design decisions I would just use Safari. Hover is perfect if I want to just quickly check what my icons are representing. Without Hover, I would need to do an absurd number of mouse actions to accomplish the same thing:

    • Move mouse to the column
    • Find the column edge
    • Click and hold
    • Drag to the right
    • Drag back to the left

    vs

    • Mouse over the column
    • Mouse away from the column

    Maybe a compromise would be Expand on Hover (only if Option is held)?

    • Vlad replied to this.
      • In Create option to disable "Show All Tabs" on pinch gesture

        Brief Summary
        Currently, when you pinch to zoom out on a window that's at 100% zoom, like Safari, Orion changes to a view that shows all open tabs in a grid. I would like to disable this behavior.

        Details:
        It's not always clear that the browser window is already at 100% zoom, so I frequently try to zoom out and then accidentally switch to the All Tabs grid instead.

        (Honestly, I never do it on purpose. I don't personally find the grid view to be helpful.)

        Image/Video:

        This is the view I'm talking about.

        • In Vertical tab drag 'n' drop is inconsistent when nested tabs off

          Oh. I do know what's happening here. It works fine with nested tabs turned on. But this is with nested tabs off, and it's completely broken because, I assume, Orion is still treating the tabs as nested and moving them based on the hidden nesting properties.

          • In Vertical tab drag 'n' drop is inconsistent when nested tabs off

            Steps to reproduce:
            Open some tabs with vertical tabs enabled and nested vertical tabs disabled. Try dragging one to a new location.

            Expected behavior:
            The tab is moved to the location where my mouse is when I release the mouse button.

            Orion, OS version; hardware type:

            Version 0.99.124.4.1-beta (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1)
            MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.4.1 build 22F82)

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            I have no idea what's happening here.

            • In Sometimes videos stop working

              Steps to reproduce:
              I can't consistently reproduce this, so I'm not sure exactly when it's happening, but so far, it's happened twice when I edited and re-submitted a post that contained an embedded video on the Orion feedback forum.

              I submit the post, then I notice that the embedded video is blank with just a play button. I press the play button, it loads infinitely. I go to YouTube, it does the same.

              But, if I turn off all my extensions (Dark Reader-Firefox, Google Translate-Chrome, LastPass-Firefox, Reddit Enhancement Suite-Firefox) and turn them back on, videos start working again.

              Orion, OS version; hardware type:
              Version 0.99.124.4.1-beta (WebKit 616.1.14.11.1)
              MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.4.1 build 22F82)

              Image/Video:

              I can't get it to happen right now, but if I see it again, I'll upload some images/video.

              Sorry, I'd test it more but I'm super busy and this is the most I can contribute right now!

              • In Search invocation keywords should be added to manage search engine

                The holy grail for me would be if the website icon populated in the address bar when you invoke the search keyword, which would make it even more aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly (but no other browser does this as far as I know).

                At minimum though, it would be really nice if the bookmarks themselves were better at populating the website icon. A bunch of my bookmarks are missing icons, and it's unclear why. (Sorry, this may be a separate post.) The icon just makes it easier to see at a glance what custom searches you have.

                Compare Orion:

                To Brave:

                • In Search invocation keywords should be added to manage search engine

                  I know this is extremely nitpicky, but I really like how in other browsers, I can set up these custom shortcuts in the browser Settings, and then when I invoke the keyword, it shows "Search [website]:" (or even better, the website's icon) in the address bar before my query.

                  It's just a nice touch that makes the browser experience feel a little more cohesive and sleek. Here's an example of what I'm talking about.

                  In Brave, I can go to Settings > Search engine, and in Site search, I can set up all my custom search shortcuts.

                  I use this for normal search (e.g., Merriam-Webster Dictionary is 'mw')

                  Which appears like this in the browser address bar:

                  Of course, I can also use the shortcuts for neat tricks like navigating directly to a subreddit by typing, e.g., 'r orionbrowser'

                  Which, of course, you can already do in Orion, I'm just trying to show how it feels more elegant the way some other browsers do it. 🙂

                  • Vlad replied to this.
                  • In Reducing width of vertical bar

                    EDIT: OK, I'm leaving the original feedback below for posterity, but I need to clarify that I had no idea that you could drag the edge of the vertical tab bar in Orion to change its size. I only learned about it because my post was merged into this thread.

                    I wonder if there's any way to highlight that functionality... It doesn't exist in Brave (which I only reference a lot because it's the last browser I tried, and the first time I started using vertical tabs).

                    Anyway, now that I know we can already collapse the vertical tab bar so it only shows icons, my primary feedback would be: please give us the option to turn on Expand on hover. Thanks! <3

                    Brief Summary
                    I love vertical tabs, but they can take up a lot of screen real estate, especially when I need to have the browser side-by-side with another window. I think we should have an option to collapse vertical tabs so only the icons are shown.

                    Details:
                    I really like how Brave's options for vertical tabs, where you can leave them as icons by default, but if you hover the tab area, it expands to show full titles. (In Brave, Hover on expand is optional as well, of course.)

                    I will say, Orion's Tab Switcher makes it somewhat viable for me to leave the vertical tab sidebar closed most of the time, but I would still prefer to see the icons so I know at a glance what tabs I have open, without needing to pull up the Tab Switcher, which basically takes up the whole screen.

                    Oh, and this is possibly for a separate thread, but I like how in Brave, I have the option for a page preview to pop up on hover. It's not super necessary, just a nice little quality-of-life feature.
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                    Btw, the tab switcher is brilliant. Vertical tabs are great in general, but sometimes I don't want to look all the way over at the left side of the screen to navigate tabs. Being able to call up the Tab Switcher so I can see everything front and center is fantastic.

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