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Missing acrylic/mica effects in all builds
In the recent Dev/Canary branches I noticed that the mica and acrylic effects were removed even with the flag "Show Windows 11 visual effects in browser" enabled, but this has now found its way into the Stable channel and there are no more transparency (mica/acrylic) effects in the browser at all, including in menu dropdowns. Is this expected or a bug?
Looks like both effects are back in the latest Canary build for the title bar and context/dropdown menus!
Version 140.0.3437.0
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Mica has again disappeared in build 141 and it doesn't show in Canary, either (build 143). In b141 it actually appears in menus but not elsewhere. In b143 it is missing everywhere.
I am running with the commandline switch --enable-features=Windows11MicaTitlebar, visual effects enabled in appearance and the standard theme set.
Looks like both effects are back in the latest Canary build for the title bar and context/dropdown menus!
Version 140.0.3437.0
The latest Canary build has brought back these effects, at least for dropdown menus (title bar is still not working)!! I expect the fix to be pushed to Dev/Stable eventually as well.
You're right. Unfortunately, they still haven't fixed that ugly border around the viewport.
At first I thought it was the removal of SwiftShader (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platform/release-notes/138) but mica does not appear even when starting with the suggested --enable-unsafe-swiftshader switch.
in Safari for some reason there is Mica and Apple does everything to make it look beautiful but Micrasoft does everything the opposite to make it look ugly
I will delete this Browser it is really inconvenient to use it looks ugly why did they delete it??? Please bring back Mica in Windows 11 it is there but not in the browser
I hope this gets fixed soon, no Mica makes Edge look really flat
Thanks for confirming. Having the same result on multiple systems, no mica at all in Edge since the last update.
It looks terrible.
Edge looks so ugly without mica :/
I'm hoping it's just a bug.
I am just commenting to confirm that I am experiencing this also on two separate computer systems, so I know now it's not just a limitation of my hardware or something on my end. Thank you for commenting that this was in the beta versions, and now seems to be in production. I wish I had something more constructive to say but instead I will just say the obvious: this is stupid. I'm just so tired of Windows having things I like removed. It makes me wonder if anyone tests any software before implementing changes or simply like you asked; is it a bug or expected? If it's intended, then why is the "Show Windows 11 visual effects in browser" toggle still even present? If it's a bug, then why? Why can't they make updates and changes as needed without breaking things? It really makes a substantial change in the appearance of the browser too. Just bummed out that it's back to being an ugly browser again.
