A very thin line has reappeared under the Active Tab in Firefox 123.0 when using CSS to create ‘connected tabs’ (i.e. no boundary between Active Tab and the Nav Bar).

This line had previously been removed in my own CSS styling by using your suggested fix in r/FirefoxCSS topic ‘Connected tabs - Proton Tabs Tweaks’…“That’s probably solved by simply adding .tabbrowser-tab[selected]{ position: relative; z-index: 1 }” … however, this fix no longer works in Fx123.0… and not obvious what has changed from my efforts with the Browser Toolbox?

A hint of the problem had reappeared in Fx122… in which, when the browser window did not have focus, the Tab Bar darkened AND a thin line appeared under the active tab… until window focus was restored.

(EDIT - The reappeared Active Tab underline problem only existed if using the ‘out-of-date’ 25Oct23 version of MrOtherGuy’s ‘non_floating_sharp_tabs.css’ style… the problem had already been fixed… and is NOT present in the current 24Jan24 version.)

The attached image shows the same problem also exists in your ‘non_floating_sharp_tabs.css’ AFAICS? The LH image is Firefox 123.0 + RH image of LibreWolf 122.0.1-2. (Both browser windows have focus. Both images of clean test profiles on Win10 with only your latest ‘non_floating_sharp_tabs.css’ style and the Gradient Blue theme added. The UI size has been increased by setting pref ‘layout.css.devPixelsPerPx’ = 2.5 to improve the image clarity o the two toolbars.)

  • ResurgamS13@fedia.ioOP
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    9 months ago

    @MrOtherGuy: Thanks for your reply and testing. :)

    Don’t understand why the underline ‘artifact’ won’t reproduce for you? The 2 images attached are without any of my own CSS and are just “clean test profiles on Win10 with only your latest ‘non_floating_sharp_tabs.css’ style and the Gradient Blue theme added.”

    Thus, unless the ‘underline’ in Fx123.0 is somehow being created by some conflict with the setting(s) within the Gradient Blue theme itself… I can’t see what could be causing the problem?

    Will test again with new clean profiles just to be sure I can reproduce too! And then try your ‘non_floating_sharp_tabs.css’ style with Firefox’s default themes and a random selection of other AMO toolbar themes.

    (FWIW - The Gradient Blue toolbar theme is one of the older ones and IIRC from looking at its coding a couple of years ago it is written in a slightly different format to the way a toolbar theme would be created using the latest version of Firefox Color.)