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I don't know about that. Seems like it only tweaked the UI, not the UX, and i find the official one more visually appealing.

megous 5y ago
Official UI style is a complete garbage. They killed the most common thing that I as user need to do, and that's quickly identifying which tab is active. It doesn't stand out at all (default style after creating a new profile): https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png No background difference, nothing. It's not visible when I set monitor to low brightness during the night. Most installable themes are similarly non-distinct. I had to go through install/uninstall loop of around 15 themes before finding one that has strong contrast on the selected tab: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png That's what happens when things have to look pretty, instead of being usable.
- sciurus 5y ago
  In your screenshot the active tab is easily distinguished to me. It has a border around it and appears raised above the other tabs.
- jmnicolas 5y ago
  Any chance you would share which theme it ils?
  - megous 5y ago
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console-dark-red/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console... Even better now, with OP's CSS: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png Now just some way to decrease the height of the tab bar, and I'm happy again.
    - jmnicolas 5y ago
      Thanks.
- stronglikedan 5y ago
  Agreed, the active tab should be a different color, so it can be distinguished at a glance, without wasting brain cycles. But they also ruined the window itself in a similar way. It no longer honors the OS theme, so I can't have the title bar be a different color for the focused window. Another waste of brain cycles trying to figure out which window I'm in. Maddening. I went back to Chrome when they did this a few releases ago. That, and the fact that I have to drill down into submenus for common tasks that should be available on the main menus.

megous 5y ago

Official UI style is a complete garbage. They killed the most common thing that I as user need to do, and that's quickly identifying which tab is active. It doesn't stand out at all (default style after creating a new profile): https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2eddfc6ed4ebe129.png No background difference, nothing. It's not visible when I set monitor to low brightness during the night. Most installable themes are similarly non-distinct. I had to go through install/uninstall loop of around 15 themes before finding one that has strong contrast on the selected tab: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/3571258bbc86a7db.png That's what happens when things have to look pretty, instead of being usable.

sciurus 5y ago
In your screenshot the active tab is easily distinguished to me. It has a border around it and appears raised above the other tabs.
jmnicolas 5y ago
Any chance you would share which theme it ils?
- megous 5y ago
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console-dark-red/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/retro-console... Even better now, with OP's CSS: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/35a017ef1685a7ac.png Now just some way to decrease the height of the tab bar, and I'm happy again.
  - jmnicolas 5y ago
    Thanks.
stronglikedan 5y ago
Agreed, the active tab should be a different color, so it can be distinguished at a glance, without wasting brain cycles. But they also ruined the window itself in a similar way. It no longer honors the OS theme, so I can't have the title bar be a different color for the focused window. Another waste of brain cycles trying to figure out which window I'm in. Maddening. I went back to Chrome when they did this a few releases ago. That, and the fact that I have to drill down into submenus for common tasks that should be available on the main menus.