Design issue: enable favicon outer glow by default

[charlescheng]

For the themes with background colors that are above a certain gray level, the white outer glow on the favicon seems to be disabled. This is a problem when:

1. You want the accent color from the active page to color the tab,
2. you want to use a lighter background color, and
3. the favicon itself contains no border (i.e. the Google logo itself contains a white border)

Depending on the favicon, this often makes the outer layer or even the entire icon invisible.

See the following screenshots for comparison:

What I suggest is to either:

1. Make themes where outer glow is on regardless of the background color
2. Make the outer glow a separate option

[Hadden89]

@charlescheng This tends to happen with sites without a background/border or flat favicons...
I keep this little mod as a workaround #tabs-container .favicon {background: white;} but, yeah is a very very old UX design issue. Others workarounds/solutions/similar requests were proposed too.

[LonM]

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