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Toolbar & Layout

Use Settings > Toolbar & Layout to change how WebLibre places tabs and toolbar controls on screen. These options mainly affect comfort, reachability, and how much page space the browser uses.

Tab Bar Position

Open Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Tab Bar Position and choose one of these options:

  • Top — Keeps the tab bar at the top of the screen.

  • Bottom — Places the tab bar at the bottom for easier one-handed reach.

  • Left / Right — Turns the tab bar into a vertical side rail.

If you prefer using the phone with one hand, Bottom is usually the easier option.

Vertical Side Rail

With Left or Right, WebLibre shows a vertical rail along the side of the screen. The rail combines tabs, the address and search controls, toolbar actions, contextual actions, and pinned add-ons in one column.

A few things work differently on the rail:

  • Swipe the rail away to hide it, and swipe vertically on it to switch tabs.

  • Because the rail is narrow, tab titles and inline close buttons may be hidden to save space. Tab actions stay available through the tab menus.

  • Tab nesting is shown as a compact corner badge on the favicon instead of chevrons.

  • The Two Rows tab stacking mode does not fit on the rail, so it falls back to the Accordion layout there.

Tab Bar Style

Open Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Tab Bar Style and choose how much information each tab shows:

  • With Title — Shows the page title and URL breadcrumb.

  • Compact — Shows a centered URL pill without the page title.

Choose Compact if you want a cleaner look, or With Title if you want more context while switching tabs.

Auto Hide Tab Bar

Turn on Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Auto Hide Tab Bar to hide the tab bar while you scroll. This gives more room to the page content.

When you scroll back, the tab bar appears again. With the tab bar at the top, WebLibre describes the top position as persistent, so auto-hide is most useful with the bottom layout.

Contextual Toolbar

Turn on Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Show Contextual Toolbar to show an additional bottom toolbar for navigation and actions.

To change its buttons, open Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Customize Toolbar Buttons. The screen separates buttons into Enabled and Disabled sections so you can see at a glance which buttons are active and reorder only the ones you actually use.

On that screen you can:

  • drag buttons in the Enabled section to change their order,

  • move buttons between Enabled and Disabled to turn them on or off,

  • set a fallback for some buttons, and

  • use Reset to Defaults if you want to start over.

Some buttons also show a long-press hint in the customization screen. That means pressing and holding the button in the browser can open extra actions.

Available buttons include common navigation and tab actions and a History button that opens your browsing history. The History button is disabled by default; move it to Enabled if you want quick history access from the toolbar.

Fallback Buttons

Some toolbar buttons are state-dependent. For example, a primary action may only make sense when a page is in a certain state.

WebLibre can let you assign a fallback button for those cases. That means the toolbar space stays useful instead of becoming dead space when the main action is unavailable.

Long-Press Actions

Some buttons also support long-press actions.

Examples can include:

  • history menus from the back or forward buttons

  • extra tab creation choices from tab buttons

  • add or remove bookmark actions

  • a hard refresh on reload

  • the (…​) menu button: long-press to jump straight to Settings without opening the menu sheet

  • the tab count button: long-press to open the tab management menu

  • the Quit button (in the profile menu): long-press to exit immediately without the confirmation dialog

The customization screen shows these hints so you know which buttons do more than a simple tap.

While a page is loading, the normal reload button changes to an X. Tap it to stop the current page load; when loading finishes, it becomes the reload button again.

Quick Tab Switcher and Tab Stacking

The quick tab switcher is an extra bar for jumping between tabs without opening the full tab view. How it arranges tabs is controlled by Settings > Toolbar & Layout > Tab Stacking:

  • Accordion — Shows containers as chips and expands the selected container’s tabs inline. Long-press a container header to open that container’s settings.

  • Two Rows — Shows tabs of the selected container on one row and recently used tabs on another.

  • Recently Used Tabs — Shows recently used tabs across all containers.

  • Container Tabs — Shows the ordered tabs of the selected container.

  • Disabled — Hides the quick tab switcher bar.

The container-based choices are hidden when Show Container UI is off. If one was already selected before container UI was disabled, the switcher falls back to Recently Used Tabs.

New installs default to Accordion. When you upgrade, WebLibre automatically maps the older Quick Tab Switcher enabled state and mode to the corresponding Tab Stacking choice.

You can adjust these related options:

  • History Fallback in Quick Tab Switcher — Shows browsing history suggestions when there are no tab chips to show.

  • Show Titles in Quick Tab Switcher — Shows tab titles next to icons.

  • Title Width in Quick Tab Switcher — Sets the maximum width of tab titles on switcher chips.

  • Hierarchy Depth in Quick Tab Switcher — Controls how many nesting chevrons appear on chips when hierarchical tabs are used. Set it to 0 to hide depth indicators. Deep nesting collapses into a single chevron with a count badge.

  • Close Buttons on All Tabs — Shows a close button on every switcher chip. The active tab always gets one.

  • Customize Switcher Buttons — Chooses which action buttons appear at the end of the switcher bar. This is configured separately from the contextual toolbar, and none are shown until you enable them.

A few more behaviors worth knowing:

  • Long-press and drag chips to reorder tabs directly in the switcher bar. Pinned-tab ordering is respected.

  • Container chips show tab counts and use the container’s color, and the bar area is tinted to match the active container.

  • Closing tabs from the switcher uses the same confirmation and undo behavior as the regular tab menu.

  • Pinned, private, isolated, and nested tabs are marked so you can tell them apart at a glance.

Tab View

The tab view is the screen that shows all open tabs. In Settings > Toolbar & Layout, you can change how it appears:

  • Bottom Sheet Tab View — Opens the tab view as a sheet from the bottom instead of full screen.

  • Show Favicons in List View — Uses website icons instead of page thumbnails in the tab list view.

If Bottom Sheet Tab View is off, the tab view opens full screen.

Tips

  • Use the contextual toolbar if you want more navigation power without opening menus as often

  • Use fallbacks to avoid wasting space on state-dependent buttons

  • Keep long-press-capable buttons visible if you use their extra actions often

  • Try Accordion tab stacking if you organize tabs into containers, and Recently Used Tabs if you mostly jump between a few recent pages

  • Try the Left or Right tab bar position on larger screens or in landscape

  • Use Reset to Defaults if the toolbar starts to feel harder to use than before