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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jan 2017
Cc:
█ kavvaru@chromium.org
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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REGRESSION: status bar annoyingly unreadable

Reported by teo8...@gmail.com, Jun 5 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. load a page containing links
2. move the mouse cursor over some link

What is the expected behavior?
A bar appears on the bottom-left of the Chrome window, displaying the url the link points to. The text color and the background color should have enough contrast so that the url is comfortably readable

What went wrong?
As part of the recent restyling of Chrome's UI, which for the most part only degrades usability (presumably in favour of what is supposed to be aesthetics), the text of the status bar is now light grey on a slightly lighter grey background, making it annoyingly less readable than it used to be.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.79  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

Comment 1 by kavvaru@chromium.org, Jun 7 2016

Cc: kavvaru@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
teo8976@ Thanks for the issue.

Unable to reproduce the issue on windows 7, Linux Ubuntu 14.04 using chrome version 51.0.2704.79  and 51.0.2704.84.
able to read the URL without any issues.Please find the attached screen shot for the same.

Please try the issue by upgrading chrome to latest stable and if the issue still persists please provide us the screen shot of the issue for better understanding the issue.

Thanks,
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Comment 2 by teo8...@gmail.com, Jun 7 2016 

Yeah, that's the same that I see.

Yes, I can read it too (I should have said "annoyingly less readable"), but it was much more contrasted and readable before. I seem to remember the background used to be slightly darker, yet the text was *much* darker and overall the contrast was higher. I don't see any advantage in the new style compared to the old one. 

Note that I am not visually impaired.
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 8 2016

Labels: -Needs-Feedback Needs-Review
Owner: kavvaru@chromium.org
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "kavvaru@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 4 by kavvaru@chromium.org, Dec 30 2016

Labels: -Needs-Review Needs-Feedback
Owner: ----
Unable to reproduce the issue on Linux Ubuntu 14.04 using chrome version 55.0.2883.87.Now the status bar text looks better.

teo8976@ could you please try the issue on latest stable and update the thread if the issue still persists.

Thanks,

Comment 5 by teo8...@gmail.com, Jan 1 2017 

Yes, it's much better now
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Comment 6 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 9 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback Needs-Review
Owner: kavvaru@chromium.org
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "kavvaru@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 7 by kavvaru@chromium.org, Jan 20 2017

Labels: -Needs-Review
Owner: ----
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for the update.
Closing this issue as per comment #5.
Please feel free to raise a new issue if you face any issue on chrome

Thanks,
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