The most controversial Mac Safari changes shown at WWDC - compressing tabs and the URL location field into a single row at the top of each window, and coloring the entire window with the accent color of the currently frontmost web page - are settings that (thankfully) can be turned off in Safari’s Preferences window (under “Tabs”, natch). Safari 15 on iPad suffers similarly, but it’s the Mac version I’ll concentrate on here. Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month, praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually shipped: the new tabs in Safari 15 for Mac.
The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’ Friday, 1 October 2021
