Forum Discussion
InPrivate theming
Thank you to everyone's comments and feedback! I think we found some great ideas here that we'll be doing some design iterations and further testing on. Stay tuned, and if you have any other feedback about InPrivate or Edge, you can send us your thoughts through the browser at any time.
We've brought up "the chip" a lot, and I want to add a bit more about it.
#1: Chip color = Accent color. In Edge Legacy, the chip color was always blue, but everything in Edge was blue. In Chromium Edge, the Title Bar's color is determined by my Windows Accent Color, and I believe the color of the inPrivate chip (along with other parts of the UI) should play along with this.
#2: Incognito tabs are still tied to the profile of the window you opened them from, but the profile icon inside of the chip is always a faded version of the default profile icon, not my profile icon. I hadn't thought about this previously, but it's impossible to tell the difference between incognito tabs for two different profiles.
I believe that the user's profile picture should appear within the chip instead of a generic icon. People wouldn't want to save personal incognito favorites to their spouse's or work's profiles!
#3: I don't have any issue differentiating when the contents of the tabs in inPrivate mode are substantially different from normal mode. When the contents of my current inPrivate browsing tab is the same as the contents of my regular browsing window, and I am in dark theme, I can accidentally use the wrong window. (This has happened when testing Google Docs link settings). I believe a user-definable choice of in-private address bar accent color would be the best solution. (I am, like some others here, partial to dark purple, but do not want to speak for everyone when I say that.) ShirleyNg