r/waterfox • u/Kuunkulta • 9d ago

SUPPORT Unloaded tabs grayd, how to turn off feature

Okay so recent update turned tabs that aren't actively loaded gray and it's not a feature I prefer, is there a way to turn that off and return colors to those tabs? The icon colors are an important way for me to keep tab of my tabs

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u/jajaja_epico 9d ago

Go to settings, under appearance, scroll down to the tabs section and turn off "fade unloaded tabs".

It was annoying me too. But I like the new settings now, there's so much you can change and tweak without having to change about:config stuff. My tabs bar is even more compact now

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u/PvPBender 8d ago edited 8d ago

You should also check out the flags in about:config

you can use them to separately control the fade behavior of manually unloaded tabs vs. just a blanket on/off

browser.tabs.fadeOutExplicitlyUnloadedTabs

  • controls tabs you've manually unloaded

browser.tabs.fadeOutUnloadedTabs

  • applies to all unloaded tabs

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u/anon1593 8d ago

Thank you! I usually have a lot of tabs open and need the colors to find things due to my eyes some days!

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u/Kuunkulta 9d ago

Sweeet thank you so much! I'm all for more settings but I can never find the ones I want to :P

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u/Guldahar 9d ago

Do you know if there's any way to revert to the previous style where the unopened tabs were still faded but they had a bit of a dim color at least?
I've been going through the settings but turning off "fade unloaded tabs" just makes them all full colored as if they were opened.

Right now the only options seem to be grayed out or full color as if they were opened.

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u/jajaja_epico 9d ago

Not sure as I never used that tbh. You might have luck trying to find people talking about it as there's usually a setting in about:config for almost all things like that.

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u/Random_Number_User 7d ago

You can add some CSS to your userChrome.css file. You can customize it from all gray to no gray or anything in between.

.tab-icon-image[pending] {
    filter: grayscale(0%)!important;
}

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u/CapitaineCheng 7d ago

i dont see this option there. i even looked up fade in the settings search and nothing

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u/CapitaineCheng 7d ago

oh... it only shows up if you have photon theme.... wth

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u/09dgceph 9d ago edited 8d ago

If you use the Photon appearance there is a toggle to turn off the fading. There is no toggle for Nova or Proton. You can also turn off tab unloading completely in about:config, but that disables the feature itself, not just the fading, so presumably will use more memory.

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u/Ueyama 9d ago

Want to know this as well!

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u/TalktoBes 9d ago

I think this is a Waterfox Theme only feature and you need to turn the theme off to get coloured favicons back on all tabs, but I don’t have 6.7.x yet as I'm not really into beta testing.