New Feature in Edge Canary: new dark design for Tab strip

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DavidGB wrote:

HotCakeX 

 

This new version doesn't only change the background tabs to near black. It's also made the dropdown and context menus a notably lighter grey.

 

I have the accent colour in Windows set to 'Overcast'. Again, how Edge was with that WAS perfect for me. This new version is horrible - I dislike it exactly the same way I disliked the Mozilla Dark theme in Firefox. If this new version stays with no option for the old, what was a plus for Edge in my ongoing decision as to whether to stay with Firefox (desktop and mobile) or change to Edge (desktop and mobile) has now become a minus, given the fact that yesterday I finished re-creating the now-former Edge Dark theme (as it was with the overcast accent) on Firefox.

 

I did go to that site where you can create themes for Google Chrome and have it then generate the theme install file, and tried to recreate the old version, specifying my system 'overcast' accent as the colour for the tab bar and background tab. Which worked adding the generated Chrome theme to Edge. Unfortunately, everything NOT specified in the Chrome theme reverts to default, so the URLbar, menus etc etc, lose the dark theme effect and they are elements not able to be specified in the theme generator. Which was also the case with Firefox using the colors.Firefox theme generator, which is why in Firefox I've been using userChrome.css to effectively modify just the parts I want on top of the dark theme for every element I haven't specified a change for.

 

And just because some people have asked for this doesn't mean everyone wants it.

 

I started looking at whether to carry on with Firefox (desktop and mobile) or move to Edge (desktop and mobile - needs to be the same on both platforms for syncing) due to the upcoming major change in the Firefox mobile browser. An added element is that I have very recently become unexpectedly very sensitive to the glare from light coloured backgrounds (in all programs, not just my web browser), and current (old) and 'old' Firefox mobile is very clunky with Dark Reader. So I'm weighing the two 'browser ecosystems', Firefox and Edge, carefully and in detail, and with certain MUST HAVEs.

 

I'm also disabled, in constant pain and very foggy headed as a side-effect from constant prescription medications. Trying to learn new things is difficult. Focusing to think even vaguely coherently, typing, experimenting - it's all very slow for me and costs a great deal of rapidly mounting extra pain (typing this, the pain shoots up to intolerable after about a short sentence worth and I have to break before typing any more - the whole post will take many hours). Most of the time I'm just lying in a pain-filled fog, incapable of doing anything much, and my ability to do anything is both limited and involves a lot of extra pain. I'm saying this to make clear that the fact that I've actually spent two days learning to and eventually succeeding at changing Firefox's dark mode to look like Edge's dark mode did (with W10 overcast accent), with all the extra pain from the extended focusing, searching, reading, typing and trying to find out what mistake I'd made, means that this is not just some minor matter of taste preference to me.  It is very, very IMPORTANT to me. I can't carry on using Firefox's default theme, or its dark theme as it is unmodified, but require elements from its dark theme that aren't able to be specified in add-on themes. Similarly I can't use Edge with its default theme, and I can't use it now with this new dark theme. If I can't carry on with the dark theme as it was in Edge, then the comparison ends and Firefox themed as Edge was with the Overcast accent wins. Simple as that.

 

Again, I like choice. I don't expect everyone (or anyone) to have the same tastes or needs as me. I don't want people to be forced to have everything 'my way'. If some, even many other people want this new dark theme, that's fine with me AS LONG AS IT IS A CHOICE AN I DON'T GET STOPPED FROM THE OPTION TO CHOOSE WHAT I WANT AND NEED.

 

I'm starting to build up a bad history of this with Microsoft. Early last year I started using Microsoft Launcher, which I really liked although it needed some performance improvements. Then, out of nowhere, they changed two things in the UI which had been things I particularly liked; and changed them to things I hated. In both cases the changes could easily have been new options, but no - just 'take this and screw you'. So I went off and bought Nova Launcher, where they ADD options rather than just changing things away from what at least some of their users like.

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