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Dear M, the toolbar themes are worse than glass, in readability

How do I change the color of bar and tabs, so I can spot the active tab without ruining my eyes and mood? (The only themes in 157 that are not from a child's dream are still useless, because the tabs have nearly the same color as the bar, and, as you pointed out, lack the previous visual accents like shadow or line.) I understand there is a very good reason to remove the old themes, but please explain how to change these two tings:

- tab bar and tabs brightness - bar colors or brightness (lower bar with address/search field and bookmarks bar)

Or better still, put back the theme I chose that gives me a dark mode fitting in with Mac apps. (Since I don't know if there is a backup, I cannot even figure out the values of old themes.)

Thank you

I would like to disable the recent update at settingbrowser.nova.enabled. The purple-pink colors and rounded corners are VERY hard for me to see. I need the gray background, black writing, and square corners back. Thank you.

The text of selected tab if I set on Light mode is white when widget.windows.mica and browser.theme.windows.accent-color-in-tabs.enabled flags on about:config are turned on. This only fix if I switch to dark mode.

This bug even exist prior to Firefox 157 release, where Nova UI refresh was available but disabled by default.

So I just updated to the newest version of Firefox today as of 10-5-26. Except that the purple new tab screen and header for private browsing windows that I really quite liked is not only gone, but the color that's replaced such is nearly black, making it not only much harder to see anything, but overall far worse to look at. Even worse, it doesn't change from such hardly at all regardless of theme, preventing me from correcting it.

I've attached a copy of the previous version of the new tab screen for private browsing that I managed to find for reference purposes, although such doesn't have the header included.

I would also like to take the time say that I've used Firefox for more than a decade, and I think because I haven't had an issue that's been remotely this bad to warrant creating an account to report such says something about how well Firefox has been working for me.

Hallo,

Nun scheint auch bei FireFox die Seuche mit den runden Ecken ausgebrochen zu sein. Kann man das irgendwie abschalten?

Fragt eigentlich mal einer die Nutzer, bevor so ein Sch... gemacht wird? Mich hat jedenfalls keiner gefragt.

Auch der Bug mit der nicht leeren Startseite im Privaten Fenster ist immer noch da :/

Danke und Grüße, www.

Apparently Firefox updated and changed its appearance. The tab bar and other UI elements used to be squared, but now they're round. Also the private browsing default page appearance changed too. How can I change it back to the way it used to be? I'm on version 157 on Windows 11.

I've tried troubleshoot mode and the problem remains, I have no idea what I did and I've spent a good hour of research and found nothing to help with my problem, I'm at the end of my witts. The problem is most visible with google docs, but it goes beyond, like these huge lines in the corner of boxes like the one I'm typing in now (see screenshots).

In version 157, the favorites icon in the address bar and the download progress bar have turned gray instead of the previous blue. Is it possible to revert these elements to blue?

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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

После последнего обновления вкладки, строка браузера, окно загрузок и некоторые кнопки стали иметь закругленные края. Как вернуть старые? Либо полностью квадратные, либо с небольшим радиусом закругления. Текущий слишком "круглый".

Hello,

Ever since the last Firefox update (on October 30th for me), the text on my inactive tabs has been painfully blurry (picture attached). I previously restored Firefox to default and seemed to have pinpointed a certain extension as the culprit, as well as a file within the profile named addonStartup.json.lz4. Deleting both seemed to have done the trick. However, my issue is now back, I can't find the previous file anywhere in the profile, deleting all the files in the profile that were created on the day when the problem reoccured doesn't fix it either. So I'm kind of at a loss. I have tried to set "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families" to "Arial,Consolas,Courier New,Microsoft Sans Serif,Segoe UI,Tahoma,Trebuchet MS,Verdana" and "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size" to 15 in about:config ; as this is an old fix I've seen for an older similar problem, to no avail.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Actually, I believe the aspect of a browser that should not be changed casually is the UI that users interact with while browsing, such as tabs and sidebars. Any changes to configurable UI elements are acceptable, but Firefox should now refrain from altering the UI and instead focus entirely on fixing bugs and optimizing performance. The UI represents the face of a browser, and constantly changing it not only fails to attract new users but also neglects the needs of existing ones.