357201 - white shading on new tab bar is ugly/hard to read if not using standard dark-on-light theme

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I use a theme that's primarily white text on a dark background.  The new tab bar in ff 2.0 assumes that it's running against a standard light grey background with black text.  My white text is VERY hard to read on the default selected tab (since the shading is almost the same color).

If you are going to force partial color changes on your user base, PLEASE PLEASE at least make it a configurable option, or go all the way and override EVERY color instead of just a handful.

I'd much rather see the shade be black instead of white, or even better, to respect my window manager's own tab toolkit and render the tabs how I've configured them to look.  However, if you *must* change the background color to your own preferred color scheme, at least have the grace to set BOTH halves of the shade ALONG WITH the foreground color so things are actually readable.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tin Aung Lin]

That would be so lone and now you can use FFX 7.0 New era glad to see this as not a bug :).