500401 - "Current Tab" low visibility

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 732583

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Alessio Bolognino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

On Mac OS X, it's very hard to see the difference between the current (foreground) tab and the other (background) ones. This is actually even worst when the toolbar is hidden.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox on a Mac
2. Open a couple of tabs
3. Notice how similar the colors of the background and foreground tab are
Actual Results:  
I can't see the difference between the two tabs

Expected Results:  
I'd like to be able to see the difference between foreground and background tabs

Comment 1

[Alessio Bolognino]

I'm attaching some screenshots, so people can see how bad is the default theme.

I made a litte change to my userChrome.css , I added:

tab:not([selected="true"]) {
    background-color: rgb(100,100,100) !important; 
}

and IMHO the result is a much better visibility.

Comment 2

[Alessio Bolognino]

Attachment: The default theme with the toolbar collapsed.

Comment 3

[Alessio Bolognino]

Attachment: The default theme with the toolbar visible.

Comment 4

[Alessio Bolognino]

Attachment: The default theme with my userChrome.css with the toolbar collapsed.

Comment 5

[Alessio Bolognino]

Attachment: The default theme with my userChrome.css with the toolbar visible.

Comment 6

[Alessio Bolognino]

Attachment: The default theme with my userChrome.css with the toolbar visible.

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Just curious, does it look any different in Firefox safe mode or a new firefox profile?

Comment 8

[Alessio Bolognino]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Just curious, does it look any different in Firefox safe mode or a new firefox
> profile?

The attachments "The default theme with the toolbar visible" and "The default theme with the toolbar collapsed" are screenshots of a new Firefox profile, the others two are screenshots of my current profile using the custom userChrome I posted earlier (for the record the last two look "strange" in the bottom because I use the Vimperator plugin).

Comment 9

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: screenshot on Win XP

screenshot default FF theme on XP with Microsoft grey theming.
When I stare long enough I can see which tab is actually active.

Comment 10

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

can this be set ? blocking 3.7 please (add a flag)

Comment 11

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

btw, the same problem with hover: over non-active tabs, basically invisable effects.

Comment 14

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

The new Australis theme addressed this issue, bug 732583. Background tabs will now be completely faded out and only the current tab will be focused.

Since the implementation is not done, I can't really mark as fixed. Instead, I will marking as a duplicate of that bug.