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TallTomD
Feb 22, 2022Brass Contributor
Edge Transparent Menus
The new transparent menus in Edge are not usable. When I right click on something I can see the transparent menu appear, but I cannot read any of the text on the menu. I have no idea what the selec...
- Mar 06, 2022I was going nuts on this one as well. It must not look as bad for some people. I could not read the text at all with it on. I found a solution to turn the new feature off. Go to edge://flags and look for a setting called "Enable Windows 11 Acrylic effect in menus" change the setting to Disable and you should be good to go. I have not noticed if "Enable Windows 11 Mica effect in title bars" is causing any issues or not.
TallTomD
Feb 22, 2022Brass Contributor
Deleted Unfortunately changing the theme doesn't really help:
As you can see above the transparent settings menu is not usable even with a different theme. It is a little better in light mode, but not much. Apparently this problem could be related to me running Edge inside a VM on VMware Workstation?
I'm still looking for a solution.