943195 - [Australis] Altering background color of the start and end of the active tab requires modifying SVG files

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Digitalist]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131125030201

Steps to reproduce:

The background color for the start and end of the active tab is controlled by the #tab-background-fill property which is contained within tab-selected-start.svg and tab-selected-end.svg.

This means that that user customization of the color of Australis tabs requires the extraction of copies of those two SVG files from omni.ja which must then be edited and the forcing of the browser to use the edited SVG files in userChrome.css rather than directly being able to change the property in userChrome.css.

Unless this is unavoidable for technical reasons that I am unaware of, this needlessly complicates customization of Australis interface colors for users.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Digitalist from comment #1)
> Unless this is unavoidable for technical reasons that I am unaware of, this
> needlessly complicates customization of Australis interface colors for users.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921038 .

Comment 2

[Digitalist]

I see. Unfortunately I'm not really in a position to be able to evaluate whether the performance gains from moving the background fill of the start and end of active tabs to the SVG is sufficient to remain worthwhile given how much it complicates color customization through userChrome.css.

Comment 3

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

Fixed with Photon.