597003 - Grey part of the new about dialog is too faint

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

The below part of the new about dialog is grey, but it took 2 minutes to understand that on my monitor.
This can clearly depend on color balance and ability of monitors to render the full greyscale. But practically it's barely visible and I suspect vast majority of user will se the dialog fully white.

I think it should be darkened a bit.

Comment 1

[Josh Tumath]

Better yet, maybe we should customise the change the colour to match the mockups (attachment 473598 [details]).

Comment 2

[Dave Garrett]

Please post a screenshot.

It looks fine for me under Linux, by the way.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Attachment: screenshot (Windows 7)

yeah, the mockups are pretty different, esp on Windows, I didn't notice we were so far from them on the bottom part.

Comment 4

[Dave Garrett]

Attachment: screenshot (Linux w/ KDE4.4)

Might as well attach what I see as well.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Yeah, I noticed this too. They're just close enough that when you notice it you start to wonder if they're supposed to be the same and it's a bug. Would be good to make the contrast more pronounced.

Comment 6

[Dave Garrett]

Maybe we should just go fancy and use a CSS gradient for the whole thing?

Comment 7

[Norman Paschke]

>Maybe we should just go fancy and use a CSS gradient for the whole thing?

yes, please.
maybe something like this:
>background:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #ccd9ea, #f1f5fb 3px);