Make the findbar transparent or use the win8 titlebar color?

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avada
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Make the findbar transparent or use the win8 titlebar color?

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Hello!

Most of the default theme I could could get to use or depend on the win 8 title bar color by making them and the elements under them transparent. But the under the findbar there's only ".browserContainer" which if I change to transparent also effects the website I view.

I couldn't find a color that matches this here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... olor_value

PS: I have a similar issue with the navbar dropdown list
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I don't know about Win 8+, but I built this theme (for SeaMonkey) which shows the W7 Aero color through the toolbars: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamon ... serprofile

There IS a bug for capturing the Aero color, which I personally solved the maths for 7 months ago, but Mozilla hasn't bothered to patch it.
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Cool. So how did you do it?
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Oh sorry, I didn't read your post close enough. It sounds like what you'll have to do is make a strip below the page content.... basically like a statusbar strip... and have it only visible when the findbar is on.
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Re: Make the findbar transparent or use the win8 titlebar co

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patrickjdempsey wrote:Oh sorry, I didn't read your post close enough. It sounds like what you'll have to do is make a strip below the page content.... basically like a statusbar strip... and have it only visible when the findbar is on.

Ah. Okay. That sounds more difficult than I'm prepared to do.
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