1004408 - Aero glass fog is ugly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 816733

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Chris Warrick]

Attachment: Firefox Australis’ grey background vs Windows Notepad’s standard background.

The recent update changed the Firefox UI entirely.  While this is good for the most part (and Linux is beautiful at last), on Windows 7, there is a grey background behind the tab bar.  This effect causes an ugly effect, especially if the window is inactive, as this grey background does not apply to minimize/maximize/close (as depicted on the screnshot).

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Thank you for your report. Unfortunately, because of the nature of glass, we need some background because otherwise tab titles wouldn't have any contrast, depending on what was behind the glass window. :-)

The case of unfocused windows and the ugliness next to the window controls is covered in bug 816733, so I'm duplicating this bug there.

Comment 2

[Chris Warrick]

But why bother re-inventing the wheel with this ugly fog when this problem has already been fixed by Windows?

http://inspiron1720.up.n.seesaa.net/inspiron1720/image/aeroglassputty-8.png?d=a801

(screenshot from Google Images)

Or by Firefox itself (screenshot from Ars Technica):

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ff-29-home-page.png

It would be enough to have a “fog” behind tab titles, and not the entire title bar…

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to kwpolska from comment #2)
> But why bother re-inventing the wheel with this ugly fog when this problem
> has already been fixed by Windows?
> 
> http://inspiron1720.up.n.seesaa.net/inspiron1720/image/aeroglassputty-8.
> png?d=a801
> 
> (screenshot from Google Images)

I expect that white text with no background will work less well with non-default glass colorization colors.

> Or by Firefox itself (screenshot from Ars Technica):
> 
> http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ff-29-home-page.png

That's Windows 8. It's not "Firefox itself".

> It would be enough to have a “fog” behind tab titles, and not the entire
> title bar…

You can add items (like buttons or add-on toolbaritems) to the tabs toolbar and they also need this background.