271136 - When multiple tabs are open, which tab is the active one is extremely difficult to determine.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248562

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Aronoff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Active tab extremely difficult to distinguish from inactive tabs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply open multiple tabs in any window.
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Actual Results:  
Active tab extremely difficult to distinguish from inactive tabs.


I am so sorry if this doesn't count as a bug. However, the web site did not make
clear that there was any other place to go to report such a problem.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

That is a feature of firefox, reduce the space needed by firefox to give the
user more space for content. But you are right, it is difficult to find the tab,
if your eyesight is impaired, and you don´t know  what to look for.
I just found out, look at the footer of the tabs. There is a white line, at all
inactive tabs, grey at the active tab, and another grey line below.
Seems that Firefox uses the same thickness for both lines, maybe 1 pixel,
and Mozilla wastes precious space by making the grey line 2 pixels thick.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Bug in firefox default theme, not in the application suite...

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248562 ***