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The new omnibox is hideous and hard to see
M_S wrote:
I like it this way. Bending is better.
Same here, it's not bothering me, neither on dark theme nor on light.
when I click on the omnibox the outline appears which is good but other than that i don't need to have outline up there when my focus is on the main web page content in the website.
- but I'm 99.99% sure that this is a bug. It is the same colour as Chrome's omnibox (I actually used a colour eyedropper to verify this). Google's Material Theme has a different grey palette to Microsoft's Fluent Design anyway.
off topic: Google's Material Design grey palette was a lot better than their new Material Theme palette!
19lmyers is referring to the actual chrome of Edge.- That's what I suspected. Notably, the blue accent in dark theme also follows Chrome's dark theme palette, so I suspected this was a bug related to defaults not being overridden.
And I agree that Chrome's old color palette was much better, I like how Edge Insider is closer to it than to new Chrome - It is a bug that omnibox blends in with the rest of the UI to stop causing distraction for the user when viewing main page contents in websites?
"It is a bug that omnibox blends in with the rest of the UI to stop causing distraction for the user when viewing main page contents in websites?"
I already provided my evidence. It's the same colour as Google's grey. Microsoft doesn't use the same palette.
And well, if they wanted the omnibox to blend in with the rest of the chrome, they'd do that instead of forgetting to change the colour.
and to resole your argument with 19lmyers, the resting state of the omnibox has a different colour to the hovered and focused omnibox. simple as that. and this is about the light theme. not the dark/InPrivate theme.Edit: and I hope both of you have a nice and happy day!
if you're wondering why i'm saying this a little randomly, I'm hoping that by in me saying it, others will reciprocate as I'm not really doing well
off topic:
What countries are you guys from? 😄 I'm from Australia!
- My problem is contrast. I literally have to squint to tell the omnibox apart from the browser chrome, because they're the same color and it only has a light shadow.
I've also noticed a new problem - the omnibox reverts to full white (matching old behavior) or full black (which looks very wrong) when text is edited, depending on the theme.- Wait what's browser chrome? you're talking about Google chrome?
about second paragraph, can you take some screenshots or a quick video/gif? I'm not sure what you're referring to. I've used both light and dark theme but I mostly prefer dark, good for eyes and also in recent poles people have preferred dark them over light theme when working with computer programs so chances are if light theme hurting your eyes you need to use dark them too.
