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Toolbar & Menu Bar in black colour in Firefox 106.0 Private Mode

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As of today, when I started a new private window of firefox, the Toolbar & Menu Bar showed up in black background colour. Can I configure this behaviour? I checked, if there is a private mode-dependent configuration of a certain theme, but is seems as if there is no option like this.

Thanks for any help, Richard

As of today, when I started a new private window of firefox, the Toolbar & Menu Bar showed up in black background colour. Can I configure this behaviour? I checked, if there is a private mode-dependent configuration of a certain theme, but is seems as if there is no option like this. Thanks for any help, Richard
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Found the solution: In private mode, right-klick the title bar, select "Customize Toolbar", select "Manage Themes" at the bottom of the browse window, enable the "Light-Theme" in the "Manage your Themes"-Section of the settings.

Seems as if Firefox is enabling the dark theme für private browsing mode windows by default with the recent update, but is not communicating this change.

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Suluhisho teule

Found the solution: In private mode, right-klick the title bar, select "Customize Toolbar", select "Manage Themes" at the bottom of the browse window, enable the "Light-Theme" in the "Manage your Themes"-Section of the settings.

Seems as if Firefox is enabling the dark theme für private browsing mode windows by default with the recent update, but is not communicating this change.

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I will try this, but, how do I get to "Private Mode"?

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You can set browser.theme.dark-private-windows = false on the about:config page.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. On the warning page, you can click "Accept the Risk and Continue"to open about:config.

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cor-el schrieb

You can set browser.theme.dark-private-windows = false on the about:config page. You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. On the warning page, you can click "Accept the Risk and Continue"to open about:config.

Thanks a lot!

Is this doing the same as when I enable the "Light-Theme" in the "Manage your Themes"-Section of the settings as I mentioned? If I check the browser.theme.dark-private-windows - setting in the config-page it's on "true" and still my firefox appears the the light-theme when using private mode as shown in the attached screenshot. So this configuration setting seems to be overwritten by the themes-configuration?

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BillPhilpot schrieb

I will try this, but, how do I get to "Private Mode"?

right-click firefox icon, select "new private window"