The new combined GSR button is really ugly when indicating the STOP function. The background red is so obtrusive that it looks like an error indicator.

See also bug 593350. Please attach a screenshot just in case you're seeing something different. I see this: attachment 471833 [details] That doesn't look ugly to me. Maybe too colorful, but all the states are very colorful.

(In reply to comment #1) > See also bug 593350. > > Please attach a screenshot just in case you're seeing something different. I > see this: attachment 471833 [details] > > That doesn't look ugly to me. Maybe too colorful, but all the states are very > colorful. Ugliness is obviously in the eye of the beholder. That is what I see. None of this really integrates well into the rest of the theme, however the normal stop button is red enough and obtrusive enough to really look like it is an error alert. Red buttons of this type should really only be used as error indicators.

The real issue here is that this is in the urlbar. the same place where we use the color green to indicate that you are visiting a supposedly safe site because it has en EV certificate. Granted this is on the other side of the urlbar, but displaying a button with a red background on the in the urlbar when we have already defined a green background in the urlbar to indicate safe kind of would tend to make one thing the red button indicates this is an unsafe site.

I see your viewpoint; the redness could be misinterpreted or be distracting. One possible suggestion would be to have the stop button only be red on hover and during loading have just a plain 'X' with a normal background, similar to how the refresh button state is done. If we still want some red in both states, the non-hovering 'X' itself could be red.

Attaching a cropped screenshot comparison of the stop buttons on Windows XP and Linux. WinXP does look better I think. The overall issue of red being overused here as a loading indicator probably warrants a separate bug, as it's not specific to Linux.

Odd. Compare that new attachment 472296 [details] to the old attachment 471833 [details] and the 'X' looks different. It seems the 'X' changes color when loading nears its end.

> The overall issue of red being overused here as a loading indicator probably > warrants a separate bug, as it's not specific to Linux. -> bug 593684

Both issues are now covered by more specific bugs (bug 593350 and bug 593684), so closing this one.