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Suddenly all the colors (any theme) on the lower part of my menu banner (e.g., bookmarks toolbar) are faded. What's happening?

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For some reason, beginning today, my Firefox toolbar area at the top (banner area) of the browser frame looks different. The lower part of the banner/toolbar area now - mysteriously, and regardless of what themes I pick - mutes any color scheme. Again, just on the lower half. See attached screenshot of banner.

For example, I have a theme called "fundo blue and black", which normally appears as a basic black banner. Starting this evening, the lower half of this black banner is now grey. Same with all my themes (even downloaded several new one; same issue); any color in the lower half of the banner (i.e., where my bookmarks and prefbar toolbars are shown) now appears muted or faded.

What on earth would cause such a weird anomaly? Thank you.

For some reason, beginning today, my Firefox toolbar area at the top (banner area) of the browser frame looks different. The lower part of the banner/toolbar area now - mysteriously, and regardless of what themes I pick - mutes any color scheme. Again, just on the lower half. See attached screenshot of banner. For example, I have a theme called "fundo blue and black", which normally appears as a basic black banner. Starting this evening, the lower half of this black banner is now grey. Same with all my themes (even downloaded several new one; same issue); any color in the lower half of the banner (i.e., where my bookmarks and prefbar toolbars are shown) now appears muted or faded. What on earth would cause such a weird anomaly? Thank you.

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See this support article. How do I create a screenshot of my problem? It is best to use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot and make sure that you do not exceed a maximum file size of 1 MB.

Then use the Browse .... button below the Post a Reply text box to upload the screenshot.

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Thought I'd attached it before; sorry. Screenshot of issue attached. Thanks!

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I have this problem in Linux on PCLinuxOS and i tried also PeppermintOS in my pc desktop and same problem. I tried also in a notebook with pclinuxos and same problem. In windows 7 all right. I posted here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1106689 Then the problem is also in windows ? It's strange because in win7 it's all right, but in Linux all the black themes now they are grey. Bye Francesco bat

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Based on a couple other threads, there is a reduced transparency of the toolbars in Firefox 44 (semi-opaque or translucent appearance), but the specific coloration varies between operating systems. Probably someone will post comments on how to restyle the bars using a custom style rule, but I don't have Windows 8.1 or Linux handy to experiment with myself.

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Thanks jscher 2000; I'm going to dig a little deeper on this and try to see if Mozilla is doing this themselves with a patch or other upgrade.

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Bashosan said

I'm going to dig a little deeper on this and try to see if Mozilla is doing this themselves with a patch or other upgrade.

Firefox includes various style sheets for the toolbar area with rules for the default theme and for add-on themes. Unless you have other add-ons modifying the appearance of the toolbar area, then most likely this is part of Firefox and needs to be modified using a custom style rule or an add-on.

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You can look at the Classic Theme Restorer extension to customize the appearance and restore features used in older Firefox versions.

See Toolbars (3) in the CTR settings.

  • You can check out the settings of the CTR extension via its Options/Preferences button on the "Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions" page.
  • You can find extra toolbar buttons and more toolbar settings in Customize (3-bar Firefox menu button > Customize)
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Thanks Cor-el !! Good info.