Or you could use the same color but different thickness.Ĭompared to the old Fiefox theme, it's now too difficult to very quickly tell which is the active tab, due to the low contrast difference. If you wanted to go really crazy, you could use two colors: one for current tab, and a different color for any other tabs. I've attached a crudely edited example to show what I mean. I'm a fan of flat UI, but a little bit of separation using a 2-sided corner outline on the left of the current tab would be great. I also agree that the tabs are a bit too flat, at least in dark mode. I just think it'd be nice to have the on-click effect in the address bar become an on-hover effect, and apply it universally to clickable elements in the menu. I like the default color and brightness in dark mode, so I don't make any suggestion for changing those at all. I'd also suggest applying the same effect to all clickable elements in the menu. This way, when I hover over it, I see the cursor position, and if I click into it, I know where I am. One tweak I'd suggest is to take the light-colored address bar border that appears on-click in the address bar, and make it on-hover as well. Please implement these fixes as soon as possible. These are all objectively measurable bugs that have been mistakenly added as a "feature" with the recent update. The new implementation causes real and directly measurable usability issues- Reduced usable real estate in tabs due to lack of visual separation Increased navigation times between the Address Bar, Search Bar, and other elements in that toolbar for the same reason of lack of visual separation measurably increased eye strain due to a pure white background, which has been researched time and time again in this industry. Change the UI's background from pure white, to a gentle, greyish off-white like it was before. Add borders, vertical bars, or some other method of distinguishing the address and search bar from each other.
I'm not standing on a soap box to scream, rant, or rave about "Ugh, change bad!" I'm merely imploring you to implement industry standard design philosophies that have withstood the test of time for ~30 years. And, unfortunately, I cannot use dark themes because it aggravates my migraines.
For someone like me, who's eyes have trouble focusing, this strain to my eyes is almost immediate.
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There's a reason why grey UIs became the default in Windows 95.
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Thusly, Chrome has no other elements to distinguish its Address Bar from, while Firefox has a direct necessity to separate its elements.Īs for the bleedingly white background- Even Software Development books from the early 90's explained why off-white background were preferred instead of white. Whereas, Firefox has at least two, not including plugins. However, by default Chrome has a single textbox that acts as both search and navigation. That's a flat, raw, 30% drop in user experience for tabs.Īnd yes, I can tell that you were trying to copy Chrome with the Address Bar- I can see that the vibrance/luminosity is the exact same between the Chrome and Firefox address bars, with Firefox's colour being slightly shifted in hue and saturation.
I've attached a screenshot of a random tab- In this example you can easily see (outlined in red), that ~30% of the tab is in "mystery meat land", where it's impossible to tell if clicking in that area will result in activating the desired tab, or its adjacent partner. Because it WORKS.Ĭhrome has extremely streamlined tabs, and even they have vertical bars to separate elements. There's a reason why this solid design philosophy has gone unchanged for 20-30 years. There's a reason why the upper ASCII characters contain border characters. Not every website or page has an icon, and it's insanely difficult to tell where one tab ends, and the next begins.Īdding some sort of border or divider to elements has been a tenet of Graphical User Interface design since the 80s or 90s. All my tabs are now running together like one, incredibly long megatab. I couldn't find the address bar, nor tell it apart from the search bar. Removing the borders from all the UI elements makes it completely impossible to discern one element from another. I'm so incredibly angry- Not only at the changes to the UI which are the biggest middle finger to the visually impaired that I've ever seen in my life, but the amount of hoops that I had to jump through to even get to the point that I could "submit feedback"Ĭhanging the default UI's background colour to pure white causes immediate eyestrain.