> In most browsers on mobile, it’s difficult to keep track of many open tabs.
> We’ve integrated an elegant desktop-style Tab Bar in the UI by default.
I think there's a good reason why no mobile browsers implement desktop style tabs. Even the Vivaldi screenshots in this post show just 2.5 tabs with significant truncation of all the visible tabs. On tablet this might work (where other browsers have a more traditional tab view), but on portrait phone this seems like a terrible idea.
Their screenshot just illustrates their poor design defaults. If you could remove useless padding, make the icon smaller, and remove the close button (and the + button) like you can do on a desktop, you could fit more useful info there
You could also do the same with the url bar, and then you're looking at just a bit more vertical space vs safari with more information and functionality
> We’ve integrated an elegant desktop-style Tab Bar in the UI by default.
I think there's a good reason why no mobile browsers implement desktop style tabs. Even the Vivaldi screenshots in this post show just 2.5 tabs with significant truncation of all the visible tabs. On tablet this might work (where other browsers have a more traditional tab view), but on portrait phone this seems like a terrible idea.