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Inactive tab text and borders unreadably faint in FF 32.0.3.

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Just upgraded from 20.0.1 and I'm having trouble with the white on pale blue inactive tabs, and also the faint borders of the tabs. Can anything be done? I'm not a power user, hoping for a solution that doesn't involve moving a lot of code around. Thanks very much

Just upgraded from 20.0.1 and I'm having trouble with the white on pale blue inactive tabs, and also the faint borders of the tabs. Can anything be done? I'm not a power user, hoping for a solution that doesn't involve moving a lot of code around. Thanks very much

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White on pale blue sounds bad...

You might be able to find a new darker color scheme for your toolbar area on the themes page of the Add-ons site. There's a huge range from normal solid colors to frivolous designs. That hopefully will help with readability.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/themes/

Normally hovering a theme will preview it, but this can be a little slow.

Regarding tab shapes or outlines, what I use is the Stylish extension and a custom style rule. It just adds a light outline to the background tabs; I also created two alternate versions for people with requested them. You can check those out here: https://userstyles.org/users/2029

If you want to try one of those, you can grab the Stylish extension from the Add-ons site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/

Any luck?

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Are you using a lightweight theme (Persona)?