427506 - Background window appearance in Leopard should have a lighter, flatter look than the medium grey color the active window gets

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 406730

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Jose Fandos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040606 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040606 Minefield/3.0pre

From John Gruber's blog entry about the OS (OSX Leopard) integration of FF3

http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/firefox_3_safari_3

Background Window Appearance — Starting with Leopard, standard application windows follow a simple, consistent rule: the frontmost window of the current application gets a medium gray color while all other windows have a lighter, flatter look. The idea is that with several windows visible at once, giving the active one a darker look makes it easier to pick out visually. (One of the long-standing gripes regarding the late brushed metal theme — Christ, remember that ugly thing? — was that its windows barely changed appearance when switching from active to inactive.)

Firefox 3 doesn’t do this. Its windows all have the darker “active” look even when in the background. And I believe that its theming mechanism does not allow for it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

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