User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100420 BetterPrivacy-1.47 Minefield/3.7a5pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100420 BetterPrivacy-1.47 Minefield/3.7a5pre With the "New Style for Tabs" check-in, it is now difficult toe tell which is active tab -- especially on Windows XP Classic Theme. Please make the active easily distinguishable. Reproducible: Always

Do you have a screenshot of what it looks like under Windows XP Classic?

Why is this duped to a near year-old Mac OS X bug when this issue arose from a change committed recently for Windows theme? They are not the same.

this is actually where it should be duped to

No.

The thinking was to have the active tab much lighter and the background tabs darker. I may have screwed that up by posting two moderately different styles on the mockups page. This might be a separate issue still because we wanted to target the major XP themes individually and I don't know if we can do that yet: bug 543910

Dão, this actually started when tabs were put in the toolbar.

Here's what the active tab looked like prior to landing of bug 549061. The active tab had bolded text, which made it stand out better. It wasn't perfect, but was at least better than it is now. That said, it looks like bug 543910 is concerned with remedying some of this issue.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100420 Minefield/3.7a5pre ID:20100420040941 works in the 20100316 Win32 nightly broken in the 20100317 Win32 nightly to blame: bug 347930 my bad I didn't report this at the time, but it was so obvious that I assumed a bug would be filed by many others on XP

top to bottom: today march 17 march 16 after march 16 the difference between tab-color for active non-active and hover: is virtually nil The bolding that has been removed since has only added to the problem FYI, the most-right tab is the active one

This is on top of the patch in bug 457187.

Comment on attachment 440382 [details] [diff] [review] increase the contrast rs=me...

Verified Fixed: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/33acb0b9b1ec Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100427 Minefield/3.7a5pre ID:20100427232453 Though I feel having a weird-looking monkey sitting on the tab, clanging cymbals, would have been much more visible. :p

I have only one concern with this fix, though. Instead of simply making the active tab lighter, you also made the inactive tabs darker. Was this really necessary? It just makes the black text on gray background contrast worse. Here I'm thinking of those whose sight is not so good with distinguishing black on gray, and this darkening is heading in the wrong direction.

this bug is fixed but when TABS ON TOP is selected, it reoccurs. When TABS ON TOP is selected, active tab is difficult to distinguish from inactive tabs. Here is the screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/tz9yP.jpg