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Installed it an I love the focus mode - I just wish I didn't have to leave it when checking how many tabs were secretly opened or when manually navigating to another site with "command-l".

Been using Brave for many 5 years now but this could easily become my new default browser.

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I’ve been slowly transitioning to Orion from Brave, and my only complaint is that Orion doesn’t handle mailto links correctly. Otherwise it’s great, and I like the mobile-desktop linkage.

But I’ve slowed my transition lately, since Brave now offers vertical tabs if you set the flag. Would love to see true tree-style tabs, but even just vertical tabs makes me much less likely to switch away.

My situation is a bit different. I am on some kind of minimalism streak and started to rarely use tabs. It helps with focus and concentration. Would use a browser that enforces a no-tab policy. That's why I enjoy the focus mode so much.

You should check out min browser. it has a mode that prevents you from opening tabs. the design is also very very stripped back. no web extension support but has an adblock and bitwarden integration. it is unfortunately electron based though.

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