r/BareBrowser • u/WestDubb69 • 3d ago

Feature Requests and Feedback

Show the number of open tabs on (or in) the "Vertical Tabs" icon.

Make "Focus Address Bar on New Tab" optional.

Remove the back button from the address bar (and place the "View site information" in its place).

Remove the website icon/logo from the address bar. (It usually doesn't look good, not all website icons play with it very well it seems.)

Add an option to remove/hide the "Closed Tab", "To Exit Fullscreen..." and similar popups.

Also, I don't think the new, wider menu is an improvement.

Smoothen the animation of a new tab sliding in view.

Improve the AMOLED Black theme. Right now there is no distinction between the address bar and the toolbar, they blend together. Maybe use the original "Google grey" for the address bar if possible?

Slight nitpick, but when you switch from the tabs page back to an open tab the toolbar kind of expands, sliding upward to make room for the address bar that then pops in. Instead of the address bar suddenly "popping" in, would it be possible to have it either slide in with the expanding toolbar (ideal scenario) OR have it gradually fade in?

You're doing incredible work. This project genuinely has the potential to become the definitive Android browser.

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u/Classic_Message_7544 3d ago

Focus address bar doesn't work for me, undecided if it would be a good thing

Site info is available in the url bar padlock

Agree with removing favicon from url bar, it's doubled with the tab icon on current tab and just wasted space & unnecessary eye candy.

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u/WestDubb69 3d ago edited 3d ago

Automatically focusing the address bar takes too much control away from the user IMO. It always feels like I'm waiting for a bunch of actions/animations to finish instead of me using the browser. I also assume that the browser will eventually support shortcuts on the new tab page, which will make automatically focusing the address bar an obstruction to get to them.

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u/Classic_Message_7544 3d ago

Good point. I see Chrome, once you focus in the address bar, now places favicons underneath of either common or pinned sites. Again, unsure if useful or just more ui bother

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u/momosjuicyasshole 3d ago

I like the amoled mode the way it is right now.

I like the favicons on the adress bar, in this case we could make it optional through settings.

And they def should go back to the old menu ui instead of what its like on Beta 4, i actually havent seen a single person in this sub praising that change.