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Where did all the colour go? Icons all grey.

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All icons, everywhere, are now grey. They didn't use to be, although I'm unsure how recent the change is.

Besides looking very sad, that's bad usability: I have to check twice whether something is disabled or not, instead of it being intuitive. And when clicking on an icon, finding the right icon just takes longer: Without the colour to assist in recognising the icon almost instinctively out of the corner of my eye, it costs an extra second of staring straight at the icon panel before every click.

So how do I get proper icons back?

All icons, everywhere, are now grey. They didn't use to be, although I'm unsure how recent the change is. Besides looking very sad, that's bad usability: I have to check twice whether something is disabled or not, instead of it being intuitive. And when clicking on an icon, finding the right icon just takes longer: Without the colour to assist in recognising the icon almost instinctively out of the corner of my eye, it costs an extra second of staring straight at the icon panel before every click. So how do I get proper icons back?

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Hi,

I think that you have to reset in the following way

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings

Best regard

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Firefox 57 and later use SVG drawings instead of bitmaps for some icons.

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How wild do you want to go with button icons?

The maker of the legacy Classic Theme Restorer extension has a set of replacement buttons online (from the old Noia theme) that you can install using a userChrome.css file. I haven't tried it myself:

https://github.com/Aris-t2/NoiaButtons