Tabs are hard to read when inactive

[nothingismagick]

Current behavior:

Desired behavior:

Perhaps a contrasting color / hue instead of Black text on Dark Gray tab.

Steps to reproduce:

Open a second tab.

Versions

v2.1.0 MacOS Chrome

[jennifer-shehane]

This can be fixed from within our extension. It's been a long while since I touched this code, but if anyone is familiar with Chrome themes -> here it is: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/packages/extension/theme/manifest.json#L1

[xeger]

On a related note, the Cypress theme is amusingly almost identical to the default colors of the Mac OS X Dark theme.

These issues aren't enough of an annoyance that I feel like leaping into action to teach myself Chrome plugins - but if I get a bee in my bonnet at some point I'll try to puzzle through both of theme.

[jennifer-shehane]

Well, our theme came out before Mac OSX Dark theme, so sounds like Mac copied us. 😝

[gabbersepp]

Is this still relevant? If I install the theme of the current develop branch on WIn10 Chrome, i dont see black text but a light grey on dark grey:

If yes, I can set the color to white. Would look like this:

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#5503, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 3.6.0.