Bad/Awkward Interaction with Vivaldi's Address Bar Colors

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blood.of...@gmail.com

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May 23, 2018, 11:22:01 PM5/23/18
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Vivaldi is a chromium browser that amongst other things recolors the address bar and everything on it according to the dominant color of the tab's icon. I find this gives it a lot of personality and distinctiveness.

Ever since installing Midnight Lizard though, I only get that on pages which have no CSS to affect, such as a direct link to an image. Otherwise it is always black.

I don't mind this being an option but it is troublesome that it isn't. I personally wouldn't convert that bar to black as the important thing for me to is have an overall dark page, not that every element be dreary black with white text.

Any useful info I can think of. . .

Extremely recent Vivaldi install, hasn't had an update since I installed it, problem began immediately after getting Midnight Lizard situated, I haven't found any way to get it to not happen short of disabling Midnight Lizard and reloading the page with ctrl+f5.

Windows 7 64b for the operating system.

Midnight Lizard

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May 24, 2018, 1:07:09 PM5/24/18
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Hello!
Thank you for the feedback.
It will be possible to disable this behavior in the next version of ML with the existing option: Change browser theme

But Vivaldi saves last accent color for each website so even after unchecking this option (or disabling ML) Vivaldi will continue to use dark accent color for previously visited websites until full browser restart.

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Midnight Lizard.

Midnight Lizard

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May 24, 2018, 1:50:52 PM5/24/18
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Also since the original Vivaldi accent color algorithm often chooses very bright colors - it is possible to use different Midnight Lizard color schemes for different websites to achieve similar effect but with controllable results.

Midnight Lizard

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May 24, 2018, 2:26:52 PM5/24/18
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Here how it might look like in the next version of Midnight Lizard:

The new version will be available very soon.
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