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I've heard this complaint a couple of times recently. I find it odd because I'm using the latest Firefox and the contrast is pretty good. I wonder if we are usi

I've heard this complaint a couple of times recently. I find it odd because I'm using the latest Firefox and the contrast is pretty good. I wonder if we are using different themes?

noobermin 5y ago
Definitely a theme thing. The default theme is similar to the article, the buttons are just icons with no hint that they are buttons.
- kiwijamo 5y ago
  Just tried the default theme and the active tab is white with a dark grey border, while inactive tabs have no border and are the same colour as the chrome background. Even when the Firefox window is inactive the active tab still appears white with the dark grey border. It seems to me that there is sufficient contrast. Does your Firefox look anything like this image on your device? https://imgur.com/a/C2JvVRh https://imgur.com/a/C2JvVRh
  - noobermin 5y ago
    So, I'm not talking about the tabs, I said "buttons." The buttons are just icons and have no outline (for example, the close button, the back button, etc) Also, sorry I made a mistake, I had to edit and add a "no" to it to properly say what I meant in that the buttons have no hint as to that they are actually buttons.
  - dathinab 5y ago
    I think the default theme depends on your OS theme or something like that (could also be the gnome theme, not sure).
AshamedCaptain 5y ago
I am using Adwaita, the stock Gnome 40 theme. Note: inactive windows. You are showing an active window on the screenshot below. On inactive windows, the unfocused tab background color is #f6f5f4. The focused tab background color is #f7f6f6. Call me colorblind, but I simply cannot distinguish between these two shades. On Windows 10 it is actually worse, since Proton it is ignoring my bright-blue accent color, so by default both the color of active and inactive windows is the same gray.
- kiwijamo 5y ago
  The screenshot below is an inactive window. I've just double checked to be sure and yep that's exactly what it looks like when I switch to a different window. It is on a Mac though so sounds like the the behaviour is different on other systems such as your Windows 10 example. I'll have to have a look when I have the time.
dathinab 5y ago
It depends on the style!! Many stiles have a clear contrast between "active" and "in-active", but some don't have. E.g. some of the styles used during the early testing for the default non-light/non-dark theme had close to non differentiable, and it seems some people are still hit by this.

I've heard this complaint a couple of times recently. I find it odd because I'm using the latest Firefox and the contrast is pretty good. I wonder if we are using different themes?

noobermin 5y ago

Definitely a theme thing. The default theme is similar to the article, the buttons are just icons with no hint that they are buttons.

kiwijamo 5y ago
Just tried the default theme and the active tab is white with a dark grey border, while inactive tabs have no border and are the same colour as the chrome background. Even when the Firefox window is inactive the active tab still appears white with the dark grey border. It seems to me that there is sufficient contrast. Does your Firefox look anything like this image on your device? https://imgur.com/a/C2JvVRh https://imgur.com/a/C2JvVRh
- noobermin 5y ago
  So, I'm not talking about the tabs, I said "buttons." The buttons are just icons and have no outline (for example, the close button, the back button, etc) Also, sorry I made a mistake, I had to edit and add a "no" to it to properly say what I meant in that the buttons have no hint as to that they are actually buttons.
- dathinab 5y ago
  I think the default theme depends on your OS theme or something like that (could also be the gnome theme, not sure).

AshamedCaptain 5y ago

I am using Adwaita, the stock Gnome 40 theme. Note: inactive windows. You are showing an active window on the screenshot below. On inactive windows, the unfocused tab background color is #f6f5f4. The focused tab background color is #f7f6f6. Call me colorblind, but I simply cannot distinguish between these two shades. On Windows 10 it is actually worse, since Proton it is ignoring my bright-blue accent color, so by default both the color of active and inactive windows is the same gray.

kiwijamo 5y ago
The screenshot below is an inactive window. I've just double checked to be sure and yep that's exactly what it looks like when I switch to a different window. It is on a Mac though so sounds like the the behaviour is different on other systems such as your Windows 10 example. I'll have to have a look when I have the time.

dathinab 5y ago

It depends on the style!! Many stiles have a clear contrast between "active" and "in-active", but some don't have. E.g. some of the styles used during the early testing for the default non-light/non-dark theme had close to non differentiable, and it seems some people are still hit by this.