The 'Dark Blue' on Larry is almost too dark and makes it difficult to see the Favicon. Perhaps it could be lightened up a bit to improve visibility. Its been confirmed on IRC that its also difficult to see on XP.

I ended up having to redo my sites favicon so that it no longer uses a transparent background. So now it has a white background and looks rather cheesy. I think no matter what is done to the color it is going to interfere with any site that uses that color or a color close to it as part of the icon especially if they are using a transparent background.

(In reply to comment #0) > makes it difficult to see the Favicon. Which one? You've never been guaranteed that favicons will be displayed on a light background and should thus consider a dark background anyway (e.g. for high contrast themes, cf. attachment 316302 [details] or attachment 306872 [details]). -> INVALID?

(In reply to comment #2) > Which one? You've never been guaranteed that favicons will be displayed on a > light background and should thus consider a dark background anyway (e.g. for > high contrast themes, cf. attachment 316302 [details] or attachment 306872 [details]). -> INVALID? > Ah. Excuse me. In all browsers before Firefox 3 the favicon has always been displayed on a white background in the URL bar.

I guess I could add a this site works best in Opera to my homepage.

Who said anything about a 'high contrast' theme.. this is being seen in what soon will be Firefox 3.0 Default theme. The new Security button in combo with the Favicon (dark blue) on https pages is hard to see and is already being addressed in bug 430767.

I agree that bug 430767 should be addressed, since that directly addresses the interference caused by the intensity of the gradient. I'm not trying to belittle your central concern here, because I think it's valid, but this comment also overstates things just a titch: (In reply to comment #3) > Ah. Excuse me. In all browsers before Firefox 3 the favicon has always been > displayed on a white background in the URL bar. In Firefox 2, the favicon for an https site was presented on a yellow field, not white. And in IE7 and 8, the favicon is presented on a green background for EV, a yellow background if their algorithms find it "suspicious", a red background if they think it's phishing. IE7 and IE8, afaict, present the same background for DV-SSL as for straight http, but that background is tinted blue in the default theme, and has Aero-glass transparency. We should definitely seek to reduce the impact, since our current colouring is very strong, but if that's the substance of the concern, then I think this is a duplicate of bug 430767, or at least should be resolved when that one is.

Bug 430767 is only about Vista, and I don't expect that the background will be made much lighter there.

Dao, by which patch this bug was fixed? Its a bit unclear.

bug 430767, which has been morphed from vista to windows+linux.

Thanks and marking verified.