I'm just looking to fix the ugly white background that comes out of nowhere. I would rather not resort to setting a custom thumbnail for each of these because I like the way Firefox handles it by default. Note: If you require more information please feel free to ask.

Is there a way I can force the icon backgrounds to be transparent, or at least change the solid color to something more fitting to the theme? If possible, please let me know if there is a reason this is happening. This can be fixed by closing the browser and reopening it, but obviously, that's an inconvenience. I cannot seem to reproduce this, it just eventually happens after regular use. There is now no visible letter and the background color for these icons have changed to white. However, when I open some sites and navigate around, I come back to see this: Chrome doesn’t have the issue as it offers a white background. So in this post, I will share how you can change the background color for an image which you open in a new tab in Firefox or Chrome. While it works most of the time, I have my reasons why I do not like it. AA Acceptable contrast for text sizes below 18px. AA Large Acceptable contrast for type sizes > 18px. Fail Your text doesn’t have enough contrast with the background. Follow the WCAG 2.0 Level AA guidelines to ensure proper color contrast. Coding carelessly to open new windows can no longer be assured of success, cannot succeed by force and, if it does, it will annoy a majority of users. Windows 10 Accent Colors (used like themes). What I'm pointing out here is that the background for these is transparent. When you open an image in a new tab in Firefox, it gives you a dark background. Users can be using browser-built-in feature or extensions include opening a link in a new window or not, in the same window, in a new tab or not, in 'background' or not. And if you want to change the background image, go to the bottom of the tab. When first running Firefox it looks like this:Īs you can see, for the sites that don't have a high-quality favicon available, Firefox uses a letter and the low-quality favicon. New Tab King for Firefox improves the new tab functionality in the browser. I have recently made a modification to my Firefox profile to allow the New Tab page to have a background image, but now I am noticing some strange behavior.

Firefox new tab background