Bug 1629303 only removed the animation on focus, but the animation is unrelated to the flickering light problem IMO. The flickering light is due to the popup being lighter and using bright colors: * The popup is brighter in than the rest of the UI to catch attention * The `Switch to Tab` color is fairly bright * The highlight color is shown on the selected result and the border (it probably doesn't help that I'm using a bright pink, but still, Chrome uses a shadow and displays a different shade of gray for selected results) * It doesn't help that the popup expands and appears suddenly directly on focus, to catch attention, so it makes it easy to accidentally trigger the popup. You could argue that users can disable top sites, but it would be a shame if users can't use a feature for accessibility reasons. None of these issues are present on other browsers.
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Bug 1629303 only removed the animation on focus, but the animation is unrelated to the flickering light problem IMO. The flickering light is due to the popup being lighter and using bright colors: * The popup is brighter in than the rest of the UI to catch attention * The `Switch to Tab` color is fairly bright * The highlight color is shown on the selected result and the border (it probably doesn't help that I'm using a bright pink, but still, Chrome uses a shadow and displays a different shade of gray for selected results) * It doesn't help that the popup expands and appears suddenly directly on focus, to catch attention, so it makes it easy to accidentally trigger the popup. You could argue that users can disable top sites, but it would be a shame if users can't use a feature for accessibility reasons. * FWIW, icons tend to be bright as well, so it doesn't help to have 10 showing up on focus None of these issues are present on other browsers.
Bug 1629303 only removed the animation on focus, but the animation is unrelated to the flickering light problem IMO. The flickering light is due to the popup being lighter, using bright colors and popping up on focus by surprise: * The popup is brighter in than the rest of the UI to catch attention * The `Switch to Tab` color is fairly bright * The highlight color is shown on the selected result and the border (it probably doesn't help that I'm using a bright pink, but still, Chrome uses a shadow and displays a different shade of gray for selected results) * It doesn't help that the popup expands and appears suddenly directly on focus, to catch attention, so it makes it easy to accidentally trigger the popup. You could argue that users can disable top sites, but it would be a shame if users can't use a feature for accessibility reasons. * FWIW, icons tend to be bright as well, so it doesn't help to have 10 showing up on focus None of these issues are present on other browsers.