Misunderstandings with tabs enabled / disabled.

[yannickBurky]

First I must say that I love using Min, but something frustrates me every time: at some point or another, it's certain that I don't understand which tab is being used.

When in doubt I always click on the wrong one and it displays the url.

Some suggestions:

Decrease the height of all non-active tabs. Color only the active tab (if the theme mode is active). Display in bold the active tab. Delete the tabs and leave only the hamburger (and rework a little management in the list of tabs).

Here are some ideas, I hope I can help.

Good continuation. I can translate into French if you want.

[PalmerAL]

I could see coloring only the active tab working; it sounds sort of similar to #703. That issue also has some information on using bold fonts; it ended up having some downsides that are tricky to fix.

I also wonder if this depends on the color combination - if you turn off the "use site theme" option in the preferences, does that help?

Delete the tabs and leave only the hamburger (and rework a little management in the list of tabs).

There's an issue open about hiding the tab bar: #1011; but I would expect changes to the task overlay would be separate from that. What issues do you have managing tabs from there?

Translations are always appreciated! There's a partial translation for French already, but it hasn't been updated in a while, so there are some things missing from it. There are instructions for updating it at the bottom of the README if you're interested in doing that.

[yannickBurky]

Sorry, I should have said : when there are only two tabs. As soon as a third tab appears, you immediately see the active tab.

[Syndamia]

@yannickBurky I am not sure if this was fixed after your issue or the problem was at your end, but right now it doesn't display the active tab only when there is only one tab. From two tabs up it highlights the current tab.

Dark mode

Light mode

Are you still having this issue?

[yannickBurky]

Hey,

Thank you for your answer. The problem is ergonomic, not technical. And forgive me if my English makes it difficult to understand -_-

It's obvious on your screenshot: it's impossible to define at a glance which one is the active one.

On a classic browser, you would have clicked on one of the two to understand which one is active, but on MIN, if you click on the "wrong" one, it activates the localization with its drop-down menu and it adds another ergonomic frustration.

It is probably to avoid this confusion that they have chosen a rounded shape to their tabs.

I think reducing the opacity of inactive page names might do the trick.

[Syndamia]

Oh, I get your problem now, sorry! I didn't even relise until now that on other browsers the page you are on is brighter than the others. I used that feature intuitively.

I don't think on Dark mode it's that bad, but I can see why it can be confusing on Light mode.

I think reducing the opacity of inactive page names might do the trick.

The thing with reduced opacity on names is that it happens on inactive pages. If you haven't visited a page in a while the opacity of it's name gets reduced. The idea is that if you are frequently switching between some pages, you can more easily spot the one you want to switch to (also see #859).

Here, I was on tab Misunderstandings with tabs enabled a second ago and just switched to the right Issues minbrowser/min but I haven't been to the left Issues minbrowser/min in a while

A solution would be to have it as an option, Reduce tab opacity on: [x]Currently used [ ]Not used.

[chilikasha]

Hi, is there any update on this thing? It still confuses me the most when using Min, because in other browsers active tab is white

[felileg]

The light theme is indeed very confusing: in all other browsers we are used to the inactive tabs being grey and the active tab being white, here it is exactly the opposite. Is there any way to change this? I tried to modify manually the CSS but it doesn't seem to change anything.