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    [Implemented]Make selected tab more visible in dark mode

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    • Cayde
      Cayde last edited by

      I think better solution would be to just come up with more themes ๐Ÿ™‚

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Cayde last edited by

        @Cayde said in Make selected tab more visible in dark mode:

        I think better solution would be to just come up with more themes ๐Ÿ™‚

        The best solution would be to change the text as well as the background.

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        • zalex108
          zalex108 last edited by zalex108

          I like the Dark Skin, but on some situations I'm agree, it's difficult to find the active tab.

          For me, an under line or dot, would be simple and enough.

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          "You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". ยท Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            I think the selected tab should stand out like a sore thumb. Some Mozilla-derived browsers are still themable, and I have edited the themes I added to make sure that the selected tab had a completely different background colour.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              @zalex108 Thanks for the replies.
              The "bar" under the text of the selected tab is a neat idea I think. Especially if you made both tab text and the bar bright white, plus adjusted the background grey ๐Ÿ™‚

              More generally, sounds like a theme could be a good approach BUT (as per @concretable) I also think that the default dark theme should make the selected tab very obvious, which it does not currently especially on some displays.

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              • user-1
                user-1 last edited by

                Dark theme is too dark, I do not see the current tab, it makes it difficult to navigate through the open tabs. Make this a little bit lighter.

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                • user-1
                  user-1 last edited by

                  I totally agree. Sometimes I open several identical sites (wikipedia, for example) and accidentally close the wrong tab. Delivers a lot of inconvenience. I hope the developers will solve this problem, because I like the dark theme. The light theme is too bright for me, it is impossible to work with it even during the day.

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                  • jannilerat
                    jannilerat last edited by

                    Strong agree. I am having a huge amount of trouble seeing which tab is active and keep almost closing the wrong one. There's no harm in dialing up the shade of gray (or cyan-ish, whatever that is) used for the active tab and general upper browser area (bookmark bar, address bar, etc.). The color (0.20, 0.24, .028) AKA (51, 61, 72) AKA #323C46 looks great and is not too bright.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      I totally agree.

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                      • newworldman
                        newworldman last edited by

                        I agree. It's one of my bugbears. A simple solution would be to do as Firefox does. E.g., have a blue bar at the top of the active tab.

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                        Windows does similar with the active applications on the task bar.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          I think it is high time that the developers did something about the interface. I have sent bug reports twice with screen shots, and it has had no effect. I find it difficult to read the tab/toolbar interface at all, never mind telling which tab is selected in dark mode. The one thing that is easy to read is the context menu. Why nobody can seem to make the text in the toolbar area the same colour as in the context menu, I have no clue.

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                          • newworldman
                            newworldman @Guest last edited by

                            @concretable A lot of the time I have too many tabs open to read them anyway (69 right now). I do quite often make use of tab search, which I'd probably use. Typing just a part of the page title or site name is generally enough to find what you want. The incremental search works well.

                            (I customised Opera so that the instant search does tab-search by default using F2).

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                            • luciflash
                              luciflash last edited by

                              This is also a problem for me. Please fix this.

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                              • jamesconstance
                                jamesconstance last edited by

                                Agree.

                                I quite like this high contast theme from the chrome web store - it uses a different colour for the selected tab :https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast-colorful/cdfdkmklcjlnnnlnplffpdiekfhkpbme

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                                • newworldman
                                  newworldman @jamesconstance last edited by

                                  @jamesconstance I get a popup saying "opera doesn't support chromium theme format." How did you get round this?

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                                  • jamesconstance
                                    jamesconstance @newworldman last edited by

                                    @newworldman said in Make selected tab more visible in dark mode:

                                    @jamesconstance I get a popup saying "opera doesn't support chromium theme format." How did you get round this?

                                    I used Brave browser ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      I also find the difficulty in distinguishing the active tab from the other tabs while in dark mode to be the most frustrating thing about using Opera.

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                                      • jamesconstance
                                        jamesconstance last edited by jamesconstance

                                        Jeez - I wish this was fixed (having once again closed a tab that I thought was the one I had just finished reading, but turned out to be another one).

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                                        • stolis
                                          stolis last edited by

                                          I agree 100%. It's really sad seeing they aren't doing something about this after so long time. I also prefer the older gray color as well, by the way.

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                                          • stolis
                                            stolis last edited by

                                            They could at least create a couple of different dark themes, letting users select the one they like

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