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I wish they made it usable, favoring function over [their idea of ]beauty.

I still can't use it because of the super-annoing "feature" that greys out tab favicons making impossible to immediately see what site is loaded in that tab if you have a lot of tabs open, and of course not showing the full address on iOS (I'm bother by the fact they think it's a good idea, but at least on macOS there's a setting to remove it).

Apple is really falling behind both Microsoft and expecially Google in terms of their own software. It's just not usable anymore. Everything is hidden just to make it look pretty. So annoying.

They should focus on their iOS version, because on the desktop the contribution they make is minimal, on iOS no one will install a custom browser instead of keeping the ad-free default one.

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Like that super readable Chrome tab bar when you have lots of tabs open? http://imgur.com/a/MZ2dI

There is no solution to that many tabs.

Not getting it right with 5-6 open seems hard even if you try.

I have no difficulty understanding what my 7 open tabs are... http://i.imgur.com/LB7BqOT.png

But that's just me I guess. To each is their own.

If there were colored icons in each tab, you'd be able to figure out which tab is which at a glance, without reading every single title until you find what you're looking for.

It's so obvious that icons are easier than text—and this is why you see icons everywhere–that I have a hard time understanding how anyone would favor this solution. However, of course I have no interest in convincing you to switch browser, it's definitely a matter of preference.

vertical tabs down the left side (with horizontal text)

Why not more than one row of tabs? That would seem more logical.

The app should force spawning a new window when there are too many tabs to reliably display titles. This wouldn't be that tricky - screen width / min-legible tab size = threshold number of tabs for new window spawn.

Then it would be totally down to personal preference: when I reach maximal tabs, do I want to keep going into the nightmare pit of tabageddon or am I happy with a new clean window?

There is! If you're willing to move to a browser that allows extensions to modify the chrome of the browser. Firefox allows that, and that's where the magical TreeStyleTabs come in, looks something like this: http://i.imgur.com/dTrqpqz.png

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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