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using more neutral colors in the Light Theme
Quoting your first reply:
"if i wanted to use Chrome then i would use it, not a Google chrome clone. there is no rule saying that the background must be 100% white."
That implies that changing Edge's color scheme to a neutral one will somehow make it a Chrome clone. I wouldn't be posting on these forums if I wanted to use Chrome.
I never said or implied that there was some kinda rule. This is an MS Edge Insider forum. It's for suggestions and improvements. The browser is still in beta.
The yellowish color is not what most people are used to when it comes to browsers. Using a neutral theme would be less offensive on the eye for most people. It will make the browser more welcoming to new users (i.e. make it more popular / have a higher market share - which is what MS are interested in at the end).
Nope, that doesn't seem like that to me.
honestly i've never seen anyone else posting about it.
Neutral (NOO-trul) colors don't usually show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors include black, white, gray, and sometimes brown and beige. They are sometimes called “earth tones.”
source: https://www.infoplease.com/arts-entertainment/neutral-colors
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow.
source: Google
so you see my friend, Edge insider browser is already using a neutral color 😉
Also the word you keep using "offensive"
so how exactly is the color offensive to you?
HotCakeXmaybe stop playing a semantics game? You obviously understand what I'm talking about. All the popular browsers (read: browsers that people are used to) use white, gray or cold gray. That is anywhere on the line from #00000 to #ffffff or slightly toward #000ff. Yellow is not on that line, and neither are beige, orange or brown.
The color is more offensive (you seem to not realize that it's a relative term) than white and grey because people are not used to it when it comes to browsers. Actually I think I've already answered that question, so I don't know why you keep asking.
I really don't, that's why I kept asking what you exactly meant.
so you expect me not to take your words seriously? because when i did you said i'm playing games! i was simply trying to understand you.
Microsoft decided to take a different approach and add a little bit of yellow to the background of the new tab page, hardly noticeable actually. and you're saying that they shouldn't because other browsers don't do that.
I say the color is not offensive at all. again by people you're referring to yourself only.
you say offensive is relative but relative to what? the color is not disgusting, it's not attacking me, it's not insulting me. so !?!?
you can set the new tab page style to "inspirational" so you will see an image instead of blank page with color that offends you..You are not trying to understand me. You disagree with me, but instead of offering a counter argument you resort to playing a semantics game. Words have different meanings. You think that just because you found some dictionary that considers beige a neutral tone that somehow changes my point. Is that really something a person trying to understand you would do?
Back to the topic. By "people" I'm referring to people. Things people aren't used to are more offensive than things that people are used to. A beige UI tone is something people aren't used to in browsers. Still follow me? If not, then I give up. I don't know how else to explain it.
It's not just the New Tab page. You have to be blind to tell me that the rest of the UI (i.e. the tab bar, the bookmark bar, the settings page etc) isn't beige.