Please compare to incognito tabs, which are unchanged.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615181

There's certainly less contrast, and this is not the first complaint of this sort we've gotten.

->sgabriel to decide what if anything should be done here.

mmm I thought we didn't change font opacity on inactive tab, just fill opacity of the tab layer. Did I get that wrong ?

Just want to mention again that the real bug here is on pinned tabs. Perhaps the way pinned tabs signal activity could be changed instead.

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@3: We didn't change the font opacity IIRC.  The difference in the screenshots looks like the tab background color got lighter.

@4: Not precisely clear what you're saying about pinned tabs.  Are you talking about the "glow" animation when a pinned tab is signalling an update?  That's going to be changing to a blue dot.

Yes, and good. (When?) This really makes Google Mail worse.

 Issue 615181  has been merged into this issue.

Looking at how views is implemented, it looks like the font on Linux is weirdly mixed with the inactive tab background while views does it differently. 

The intended visual are the ones on windows and what I get is what's attached. As you can see, the text is more visible. Do we know why ?

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I notice the ✕ is also lighter on inactive tabs. I hadn't noticed that before, nor the fonts really.

I am not clear on where this bug stands.  It's still assigned to Sebastien, but it looks like it's waiting for input from someone else.

From comment 10, it seems like this may be Linux-specific.  Sebastien, can you clarify what you mean with "the font on Linux is weirdly mixed with the inactive tab background"?

Otherwise, assigning to estade as the Linux theme guy to determine if Linux is differing from Windows in terms of these colors in a way that we should unify.

> it looks like the font on Linux is weirdly mixed with the inactive tab background

I suppose gtk is providing a less-than-fully-opaque text color.

This appears to be fixed in 54.0.2840.50 in that the previous darker color is now restored, which does however make (incorrectly) merged  bug 615181  worse.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615181#c8

I notice that favicons are blended now. Could be a bug, could be intentional.

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