416656 - Tab strip background color does not (and should) match on Windows Vista

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 420236

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; it; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; it; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

Under Win Vista, toolbars, tabs and menu of firefox 3 have different background colors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox 3
2. See toolbars, tabs, menu background color.


Expected Results:  
IMHO, background colors have to be OR the same of Win XP OR the same of Linux.

Comment 1

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

Attachment: Issue's screen

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This won't block the final release of Firefox 3.

Menus and toolbar background colours are being pulled in from native system theme, so I think what you're really asking is for the tabstrip styling to match those colours. Morphing bug and adding some relevant cc's.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The background color is moz-dialog, which is a native color. What we could do is reuse the toolbox appearance, as done here in step 2:
http://cheeaun.phoenity.com/weblog/2007/09/vista-style-tweaks-for-firefox.html
I don't really like the result.

Comment 5

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I think this occurred primarily due to the fact that in the past the toolbar color has closely resembled the color of dialog boxes, and now that is no longer the case.

The toolbox appearance is producing the glass effect that is applied to the first toolbar (normally the menubar), is there any way to get just the flat color (like we see in the navigation toolbar).

Also, this sickly shade of purple is itself a pretty big problem.  There isn't a single app that ships with Vista that uses it outside of a menubar, so everyone is criticizing us for not being native (even though we are pulling the color from the system).

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The toolbox appearance is producing the glass effect that is applied to the
> first toolbar (normally the menubar), is there any way to get just the flat
> color (like we see in the navigation toolbar).

The menubar and all toolbars are children of the toolbox, which has the toolbox appearance. The color that you see in the navigation toolbar is part of that. As far as I know, it isn't available as a CSS color.

Comment 7

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Setting this as a dupe for the bug to update the vista main window appearance since it covers the same issue.