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I'm new to Firefox. I have everything set to light mode, which I am new to as well. When I open a new tab, the search bar at the top of the page is white like I want it; however, the search bar in the middle of the page is black no matter what I try to do. Any way to fix this? Both bars are set to the same search engine... I have a custom theme set but when I switch it to one of the default themes, the search bar is still black.

One of my shortcuts has no picture. The instructions for a custom picture ask for an URL. I have a picture on my file, but no url. What can I do? I have already asked this question before but have not got an answer yet.

The new Nova update has caused websites with bright blues to change to purple such as Amazon, USPS, Bluesky, and Nord VPN. I have tried disabling Nova in settings or changing themes but this does not help here are some image examples https://imgur.com/a/WRUAoiR

Ever since i touched a [edited] computer it was like 10 [edited] years ago. I've never used anything other than firefox. Why? Their design was just right. Today i come home from the [edited] gym, and see this [edited]. Pilled tabs. Are you guys serious? You guys are just going to ruin this masterpiece to have pilled tabs with 100% border radius. This is a crime. This is the best browser ever, and you guys are ruining it with SLOP UI. Pathetic.

Moderator note: This question has been edited to correct the language.

I have searched high and low for an answer to this simple question and tried to implement every (conflicting!) suggestion offered by Google AI and the Firefox help facility without success. None of the suggested fixes lines up with what I'm actually seeing on the screen at all.

All I want to do is change the "theme" or appearance of Firefox so that it follows the default OS settings -- in this case, I want green highlights and accents instead of Firefox's chosen purple. That's it. It really shouldn't be this hard, and it's incredibly frustrating to have to go down so deep a rabbit hole for what should be such a simple and obvious setting.

If someone can take the time to explain like I'm five the steps I need to take, I'd be most grateful.

Hi people. I use Split View a lot in FF browser and love the feature where when you click from side to side on each window you get a color highlight/border surrounding the active window, default is blue, but I would love it even more if I could choose my own custom color, I'm thinking a deeper cobalt electric blue or even a deep red. Can you change this color in settings? If not, how would I get this suggestion submitted?

Again, on my Firefox Google screen everything changed from black letters on white to white letters on black. I've googled instructions on how to fix this, but nothing has worked.

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Hello,

You may notice Firefox Settings looks a little different. As part of the refreshed Firefox design, the Settings menu has been reorganized to make it easier to find and understand your options, including how you manage your data.

Your bookmarks, passwords, settings, and browsing data remain unchanged, and no action is needed on your part.

If you don’t see the updated Settings, go to Settings → About Firefox to check that you’re using the latest version of Firefox.

i  hate  the fact that   apps and companies just  make changes and do not ask  their customers   i like it   when  it first began .  i do realo ize you need to  change but   ask first tas ke a poll to see who wants and who does not

To be clear, I am talking about the gaps between UI elements that were present in early mockups as well as in initial versions of Nova before it was enabled by default in 157. I understand they were a controversial design element with many users disliking them for a variety of reasons (preferences, space utilization, ...) but in my view they were really one of the things that made Nova click and I was disappointed when they were axed before the final release.

My question is whether the Firefox team has made a final decision to remove them permanently and completely, or if there is ongoing discussion/work around reintroducing them, perhaps as something that can be enabled or disabled depending on each individual user's preference?

Hello, thanks for allowing me to ask a question. I would like to know how to change the Primary Accent color in Mozilla Nightly to a mid grey color. Even when I try new themes, the funky Pink/Purple highlight is present. Where is it getting this and how can it be modified. I've read the help pages, and have even had info sent, and that's rather confusing because I've changed the userContent.css and userChrome.css files as the pages I've ready advises. Again it's confusing and it doesn't seem to work. I've even set the toolbar legacy to true in the config:about settings. Nothing seems to work and it's frustrating.

-Phil

I'll be blunt...: the new Nova interface is impractical, uncomfortable to use, and I find it genuinely hard to stomach. On a touchscreen, hitting the right tab has become a struggle. With a mouse it is no better — there are now dead grey zones where a click simply does nothing at all. This is not a matter of taste. This is a measurable usability regression, and it shipped to everyone by default. I am not alone in this. The same complaints are all over the forum, and my own students were furious when their terminals updated and everything suddenly turned round. These are people who use this browser for work every single day. For them the update brought nothing but lost time. We like Firefox. We want to keep using it. That is exactly why this is so infuriating: a browser we chose for its control and configurability is now imposing a design decision on us with no way out.

If nothing changes, we will solve it ourselves — with a patch that suppresses update notifications and adds a "Manual update" option to the settings, so that people have a CHOICE and can keep working in the good old rectangular Firefox UI instead of having someone's "brilliant" idea forced on them. I would much rather you simply gave us that choice yourselves.

Please restore a usable, compact, rectangular tab style as a supported option, and fix the dead click zones.

Respectfully, A concerned user