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The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:31:31 GMT

Hello community!

Ray here, from the Firefox Desktop Product team excited to engage with you :). If you get a chance, we encourage you to check out the new Colorways collection in the Fx106 release version. Each Colorway was carefully created in an external partnership with former sneaker designer, Keely Lascio, and portray their own individual stories, imagery and characteristics. Give them all a try and find a color that matches your personality!

If you’re curious to read more about this feature please check out this article!

As we work to make this feature better for you, we’d like to welcome any and all feedback.

What’s your favorite Colorway?
Do you feel more connected to the browser when using this feature? Do Colorways bring you joy?
Are you satisfied with the quantity of colors provided in this collection?
Are you interested in collecting and keeping Colorways from a series of timed collections?
What else would you like to see in the future for Colorways?

P.S. be sure to have your favorite Colorway enabled on the collection expiration date in order to keep it with you!

Thank you in advance for your participation! We look forward to hearing from you.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

NovaFox — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:16:15 GMT

I don't like the colorways - especially if they are limited-time. If I set the color of my browser, I expect to be able to set it to what I want forever. Also, the pseudoscience-esque "orange means you are an innovator" nonsense just makes Mozilla come across as patronizing instead of trying to be an industry leader who makes a solid product that stands on its own feature set and not on non-technical FOMO puff pieces from their Marketing department.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Jon — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:57:45 GMT

We’re excited to connect with you all about Colorways and work together to make the feature even better!

A quick reminder…

When participating in this discussion, please remember to:

-Follow the Community Guidelines

Anything that violates the guidelines will be flagged and removed.

-Stay on topic

Let’s keep this thread focused and productive. If you have additional product feedback or ideas unrelated to the discussion topic, create a new post.

Thanks so much and looking forward to hearing your feedback 🙌

-The Community Team

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Sahak — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:43:16 GMT

They are good, but the fact that they are available in limited time, makes me worried.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

1_0V3R_THNK — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:28:01 GMT

Colors are great and the UI feels snappy!

However, I feel like the whole premise a designer, being brought in to select colors is lost after the fact. There's nothing pinning each colorway to being "unique or rare" in terms of the color in it's self or the Artist who produced it. There's nothing here to remind the user that this is limited. Therefor you may miss this engagement opportunity. To most a "Limited Time" feature may come off as, options that are no longer available, simply changed because of an update. People at the most basic of users overlook lots of features because the presentation comes off as standard, very "Select your car, now choose your color." If you seek further engagement, try think something more tangible, Reddit avatars or even web 3.0 re branded version of a Tamagotchi. Just some food for thought.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

tomscha — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:24:26 GMT

i finally got rid of these (awful) colours and back to normal. only the firefox item in the apps list (mac os main screen) still has a black background square. how do i get rid of that one too? firefox was so clean and nice before. why did you change?

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Shepherd_Book — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:44:08 GMT

Concur. Suddenly my colours were different, without my consent, and I still haven't gotten them back to where I'm used to having them. People like to change colours and themes? Great. I'm glad they have more choices. But leave me out, unless I positively consent.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

NovaFox — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:34:38 GMT

Here's an idea: Why not just give us color sliders? The colorways feature looks like it just takes a color and builds out the rest of the theme using pastel accents of that base color. So maybe just give us a traditional RGB color picker and let us choose whatever color we want?

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:01:36 GMT

Thank you all for the comments thus far! Appreciate you taking the time to respond. We'll get to address most of the questions directly soon, but I do want to offer directions on how to retrieve a previous theme:

Open the application menu
Select Add-ons and themes
You'll find all of your saved themes here and can easily disable your Colorway if desired

More about this here!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:03:23 GMT

@jmag520-- I saw your post in the FxView thread. I hope these directions help you with your theme?

I don't like Colorway.

VanGarrett — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:22:18 GMT

I appreciate the idea, and it's a nice approach to being able to change the colors to your preferences, but what I'm finding is that the results are jarring. I go ahead and choose my favorite colors, but the bright is way too bright, the dark is way too dark, and the mid-range gives me a color palette that's indistinguishable from the websites I'm visiting. I think I could deal with it, if I had an option to desaturate the palette, to make my interface look like an interface, instead of part of Facebook. Instead, I have these pure, saturated colors drawing my eyes to the top of my screen. I'd really like to turn it off and had what I had before the latest update, but that option isn't jumping out at me. I also don't understand why there's an expiry date on it.

Colorway

Crashzoom — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:33:43 GMT

I simply adore the Colorway Themes and colors and the fact that you can dim them as well. Wish they could remain permanent. Good job.

Anne Michaels - Houston, Texas

Go Astros!!!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

premier69 — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:55:12 GMT

how do i remove... all of it... i just want a PK free firefox 🙂

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

MrSafetyCache — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:51:07 GMT

I hate it all so so much.

Remove Chosen Colorways

Avaburd — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:53:27 GMT

I picked a new colorway, YAY! Now how do I get rid of it?

If you love working in dakmode, but the bright bold color options that FireFox just launched as various colorways are too bright/distracting, you are probably in the same boat as me...struggling to find the undo/back button.

I wouldn't mind a gradient hue of these bold colors that blend nicely with the dark background of the "bold" option, but as it stands now, these new colorways (specifically in bold mode) are somewhat annoying.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:30:24 GMT

You should review numerous opinions on design before asking about color.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

wimmso — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:42:43 GMT

I love the current selection of Independent Voices colorways! The green is so green, and the blue is so blue.

But please for the love of god allow there to be a way to access past colorways after they've "expired." I would hate to lose this theme when installing Firefox on a brand new computer, or be unable to go back to it when experimenting with a new theme, or be unable to choose any of the other colors from this theme after it expires.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

NL-T — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:00:15 GMT

My color scheme has been ruined and I am really annoyed having to spend time to restore it.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

NL-T — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:50:30 GMT

This may be incorrect. My scheme was a minor tweak of an existing theme and as far as I can see it is simply gone.

Edit: Found! When I disabled Firefox Colors because FF somehow reverted to some previous theme that I had rejected. What a waste of time.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

hokonch — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 08:07:19 GMT

Disclosure: I am a contributor to the Japanese l10n community and has been assigned to the localization of Colorways. So I am confident that I have some understanding of the background of Colorways.

There is a huge amount of feedback on Reddit and this forum that says "I like the new colors, but I don't have no ideas why it is for a limited time". I see the issue from a slightly different perspective. I don't think that they don't want Colorways to be limited time because they like the new colors, but that they see little value in the new colors, so they feel silly to make the shades limited time and further diminish the value.

Firefox has 200 million users. My guess is that Mozilla designers are too aware of them. A design vaguely drawn like Colorways so far to be acceptable to the all users will not resonate with anyone. Mozilla should focus heavily on just some of them.
The collaboration with Disney on "True Colors" was a good challenge. Some in the community suspected that it was an advertisement for Disney, but on the other hand, there are many lovers of the Disney brand. While no one wants to collect Mozilla color themes, there are people who find much value in the Disney official theme. The only things that are even more valuable because they are limited are those that are inherently valuable, like Disney.
What was disappointing about True Colors Colorways was that they were just colors. The meaning of color is never constant in any culture, and it should be easy to understand. It would have been better if the silhouettes of the characters had been depicted in the Colorways.

If you want to make the limited time functionality worthwhile, collaborate with authentic brands not a former Nike designer. In addition, make the design so that the brand is always felt to be there while browsing, not just color. Otherwise, drop the limited time concept.

P.S. I'm a Pokémon fan, so I'm hoping for Colorways to collaborate with Fox Pokémons.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

NovaFox — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 03:58:12 GMT

The fact is that a web browser like Firefox is a tool above all else. Most people don't care about what their tools look like, but they instead care about what the tools do. So instead of focusing on FOMO color themes that most people won't care about, I would instead rather see Mozilla focus on being the best/fastest/safest/etc. browser out there. You aren't going to reclaim market share from Chrome because Firefox users can "collect themes like Pokemon" or whatever. You're going to reclaim market share by being a fundamentally better browser than Chrome.

And for the few people out there who may happen to care about colorways, Chrome's themes aren't limited-time AFAIK so Mozilla is actually giving those people a reason to switch to Chrome. If they want better theme selection all the time, Chrome is the browser for them according to Mozilla.

So while I acknowledge your point of view, I don't agree with it at all. Mozilla needs to be pouring 100% of their resources into figuring out how to improve their core Firefox features in order to gain ground on Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. Otherwise, Firefox is doomed.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

jayman — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 05:41:01 GMT

This is so stupid. I don't understand it one bit. None of it.

This "activist" inspirational talk about how "culture" and blah blah blah what the heck am I reading here? This is asinine and childish. Has firefox marketing been taken over by first-year college students? I don't understand.

Never mind the incomprehensible copy writing that sounds like a Tik Tok influencer wrote it -- what is the actual functionality here? Some color schemes? That are time constrained??

Newsflash, I've been able to customize the colors of my browser since Netscape Navigator -- only back then this basic functionality wasn't presented to me as "activism" and it wasn't taken away from me after some arbitrary deadline.

What is the point of all this? Firefox is really losing the plot, and it is sad.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 06:55:05 GMT

FirefoxがMozillaのマニフェストを実現するための手段であるためには、Firefoxが誰にも依存しないブランドであるべきだと思います。そのためには、Firefoxが優れたブラウザであり続ける以外の方法はないと信じています。もしあなた方が既存のブランドとのコラボでFirefoxを権威付けることが出来ると思うなら、その試みは失敗するでしょう。

For Firefox to be a vehicle for Mozilla's manifesto, Firefox should be a brand that is independent from anyone else. To that end, I believe there is no other way for Firefox to continue to be a good browser. If you think you can authorize Firefox by collaborating with existing brands, then the attempt will fail.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

kremlinbot — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:55:15 GMT

wait until they're gonna present you non-fungible unique time-limited ColORwAyS next year just for $199.99/theme

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

RCubed — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 04:12:26 GMT

This isn't it chief.

I would recommend adding a way to disable Colorways right from the Firefox view tab — took me a while to figure out how to get rid of it.

A great addition to Firefox would be grouped tabs (just like Chrome). It's the one major difference between the two browsers that is the decisive factor for many prospective users.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 05:41:41 GMT

I'm not interested in Nonsense Fishy Trash.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Carighan — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 06:33:41 GMT

My favorite one by far is the System Theme, i.e., turning the colors off.

There's a few reasons for that:

For no reason they exist outside of the existing theming discovery and use system, which just creates needless UI/UX noise.
They get pushed hard onto the user, but aren't even a permanent feature, just a limited-time beta test.
Their descriptions are, frankly, utterly cringe. They don't make me feel "more connected" to the browser, they in fact make me embarassed to be using it! This is supposed to be a professional product, not some spiritualist nonsense that has neither head nor tail!
The colors just don't feel good. Ever. The light colors are too pastel, the dark colors are too bright and slightly too saturated. Even the now-abandoned Firefox Alpenglow is a much better purple than "bold purple", for example.

So, what would I like to see in the future for Colorways? For them to go away. Permanently. Forever. And just make better themes if you want to provide official ones. The idea of having a bunch of primary-color-centric official themes isn't bad, but please don't duplicate your own functionality for no reason other than to confuse users and add more places where to add bugs.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

wetcat — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:09:52 GMT

Mozilla is involved with real social justice and online freedom efforts (like with the EFF), and I am happy to support and even donate. But this vacuous "Independent Voices" speak, and the ludicrous suggestion that changing UI colors is somehow participating in social justice, is the worst kind of pseudo-woke marketing. Please do not insult your community with craven fake activism. If I wanted to read such tortured language as these theme descriptions, I could go find some Chevron ad copy. Instead, just remind us of the actually meaningful legal work Mozilla is already doing!

I shudder to wonder if the next update will offer me a unique opportunity to engage with a synergistic conceptualization of interconnected sustainable inclusivity, for a limited time, by changing my application icon.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Sbernecchia — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:18:51 GMT

It's easier to simply change some color than to make a fast and safe browser.

I think firefox is doomed with the current mozilla management.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 14:01:57 GMT

The easy way leads to destruction.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

jmshrv — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 14:50:23 GMT

It'd be much better to just have a constant selection of colours available instead of this limited time horoscope stuff

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Serpher — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:08:58 GMT

Who came up with this idea? Is this really what users need? This, Firefox View, complete removal of legacy printing options. Firefox is going down the drain. FF was always about choice but recently it feels like Mozilla is shoving these 'useful' and 'great' changes down our throats with no option to disable it.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

benlimanto — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:05:01 GMT

I also agree that colorways should promote colors rather than put people in some.. confinement I guess.. there are a lot of rants on Reddit.. and even on mozillazine.org https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ybfy2a/i_feel_that_the_irony_of_stating_independent/

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Deasonm — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:11:17 GMT

This is not really useful feature and I liked it the way it was before

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

gejk54 — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:40:51 GMT

This whole initiative caused me embarrassment, it looks like the work of a chūnibyō. Please remove it and pretend you never did it.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

KevinCarbonara — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:10:26 GMT

Artificially restricting things as simple as colors and only providing them for limited amounts of times would be offensive to any group. But to open source users, especially? This is probably the single stupidest implementation I could imagine. Open source users like having control over their software. We do not like having things taken away for no reason.

Colorways are an incredibly poor implementation of themes to begin with, but this new marketing scheme is outright disgusting. It's just further proof that Mozilla cares more about advertising than they do their actual users.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

hokonch — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 19:32:34 GMT

Open source users like having control over their software.

Mozilla does not restrict Colorways for such users. You could restore all of them with a one-line user.js if you wanted to.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

KevinCarbonara — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 20:00:50 GMT

Please read the comment at the top. These are limited-time options. That is what the rest of us are discussing.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

StaticRice — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:28:44 GMT

I had something urgent come up that I needed to use the browser for, and I had updated my packages since the last time I used my browser, and I had to click through like five screens, where each element popped in at a leisurely pace, one after the other, before the button to go to the next screen came, with no exit button or any way of using the browser immediately after opening it. Wonderful.

Nothing better than being forced to sit through marketing material while in a rush to use your software. Hey Mozilla, mobile ads on crappy pay to win games are not good places to take UX inspiration from!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rmpbailey — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:12:39 GMT

How do I get back to the classic theme that suddenly vanished with FF106? I can't stand the current options and would like to have had a choice of using a new them or keep my classic view. How can I go back??

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

piradata — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:19:57 GMT

these extensions may be what you want

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

MondoBurrito — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:59:32 GMT

"Independent Voices’ are the voices of the past and present that create a better future..." Are you kidding me? This is laughably cringe worthy. Just announce a new colour-picking feature and be done with it. Independent Voices is really, really lame. It felt like a joke reading the write-up about it. "Color can change culture. The latest colorways celebrate voices making the world a better place." Give me a break. My eyes can not roll any harder.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

silly_rat — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:38:51 GMT

I've had to provide tech support to a relative who, due to the nonsensical language involved, had absolutely no idea what all of this was about. Mozilla, this ridiculous fluff doesn't "create a better future", it just generates unnecessary support tickets.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

pikdum — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:17:06 GMT

I really don't like how this had to be some modal that I had to figure out how to get rid of before getting back to using my browser. It's weird 'get in the way of you trying to actually use the product' UX decisions like these that made me dislike IE years ago, so not too happy about seeing them in Firefox now.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

KevinCarbonara — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:32:45 GMT

I think the true lesson here is that our "independent voice" is temporary and that Mozilla doesn't care about our opinions

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:29:25 GMT

Hello. Do you feel that you'd appreciate Colorways more if they were NOT limited time offerings? Or are they not delightful for you at all?

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

MondoBurrito — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:58:15 GMT

1) Remove the insincere description of Colorways. You are not out to change the world by colour. Lets be honest here. That is a huge stretch. It is VERY lame to read through all that verbal diarrhea.

2) A browser is a tool to surf the net. Not a social tool to change society. So actually make it into a useful tool that EVERYONE will find handy. Therefor...

3) Simply create a custom colour-picking tool to allow everyone to create their own colour pallet (and you can include presets) and don't make it limited time. And DO NOT, tack some cheesy, woke, social-justice sounding vocabulary to it. That is totally unnecessary. Give us the power to customize Firefox EXACTLY how we want it, at any time we want to. Limited time on a colour-picking tool is ridiculous.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:54:45 GMT

@Shepherd_Book-- are you still having trouble finding your previous theme? This article should help you with that.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:57:02 GMT

@benlimanto-- thanks for the feedback. May I ask where you selected your Colorway? Was it during the Onboarding upgrade experience? Or were you doing it in Firefox View?

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:58:47 GMT

Thanks for the feedback @MondoBurrito . Would you personally prefer a tool similar to Firefox Color to customize the browser on your own?

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:05:23 GMT

@Sahak- Thanks for the reply! Would you prefer to have access to all Colorways in a given collection in perpetuity?

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:12:04 GMT

@1_0V3R_THNK-- this is very helpful feedback. Thanks! Especially love the perspective about having a tangible component.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:17:38 GMT

Thanks for this suggestion! I'll discuss with the team and see what we can come up with. @NovaFox

Re: Colorway

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:18:40 GMT

Thanks @Crashzoom ! We seem to be getting a lot feedback around making them permanent. We'll take this back to the team for review.

Re: I don't like Colorway.

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:20:43 GMT

thanks for the feedback @VanGarrett ! I especially think it could be interesting to introduce a more manual user customize component.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:22:13 GMT

Thank you @wimmso ! This is great feedback and pretty consistent with what others have shared. We'll look into this!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

MondoBurrito — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:26:16 GMT

Sure. That sounds like a fine idea to me.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:27:14 GMT

Very helpful perspective and some great suggestions here! @hokonch

We value you as a community contributor to our products and will take this valuable feedback to the team for review.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

DenisB — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:55:41 GMT

Please please please get rid of this thing or at the very least make it OPTIONAL to have it. I changed TO Firefox because Chrome became too intrusive by changing settings disguised as "improvements." Please, do not make me change to another browser.

In case this is not clear, no I am not "loving Firefox" at the moment.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

conradcohen — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:44:06 GMT

I have a pink screen and its not colourway. All x indicators and others are in white and are usually invisible. They used to be, and should be, black.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Krille — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 19:11:33 GMT

To answer your questions:

My favorite Colorway is none at all, I stick with the default colors. It's a totally useless feature to me.
I don't feel more connected and it doesn't bring me joy, more to the contrary
Dunno
No
I'd like to see them disappear and the time and effort being spent on useful things

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

AdrianF — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:29:34 GMT

I like the idea... BUT 😊... :

1. the colors are waaaay to bright and saturated in dark mode. I returned to my previous theme.

2. limited time is not OK. The expiration date should be in years, not months. 🙂

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Jon — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:15:10 GMT

Colorways is an optional feature. If you need to disable a Colorway or select a new theme:

Click the Disable button on the Colorway card under Manage Your Themes. This will restore the system default theme.
You can also navigate to the Saved Themes section and click Enable on any theme in this section to restore a previous selection.

More info here in this article. Hope it helps!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

eggplant_23 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:29:09 GMT

Hello. It will be nice if you make the colorways NOT limited and free to use by the users. This limited time offering is awful and I don't know who even came up with this nonsense.. Like come on, let people enjoy stuff.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

lovelyjubbly — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:27:22 GMT

I don't use Colorway simply because they are a limited time feature. I expect browser behaviour to stay consistent instead of me having to manage changes or troubleshoot something changing, but Colorway represents a disruption for no beneficial reason.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

eggplant_23 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:29:39 GMT

That is going to be awesome!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

kremlinbot — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:58:40 GMT

No, because the colorways themselves feel clunky and too saturated, almost like they were made in a rush in 2-3 hours.

I think Mozilla should add more nice and calm themes for everyday use. On Reddit, I've already suggested making a few after popular IDE themes (e.g. Solarized dark/light, Nordic, Gruvbox, Monokai, maybe FF Devtools-inspired one etc.), everyone (especially power users) would really appreciate it!

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

RoryBean — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 02:15:56 GMT

I finally update Firefox and regret it a great deal. First, the ridiculous colors. And the rest of the ridiculous changes that are do not help functionality and distract from what I see as the real purpose of Firefox: to be a great and well-functioning BROWSER. I fear that Firefox will go the way of many other programs, apps, browsers that were absolutely fine until ridiculous changes were made. Please keep the desktop/laptop version of Firefox an actual computer brower and don't turn it into an app like some programs have done. Stop trying to fix things that are not broken. Or at least make it simple for us to figure out how to keep the original classic look and function. I am not happy with this update at all. Just keep things secure and functional. That is all that matters.

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

rayf — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:50:39 GMT

Hello all! I just to express how grateful we are as an organization to have such amazing contributors. Your feedback is essential to giving us the ammunition we need to inform meaningful products.

We've learned so much over the course of the last couple of weeks around understanding your user needs, desires, and pain points as it relates to Firefox Colorways. Some of the more common idea suggestions fall into the realm of:

Allowing users to create customized Colorways
Remove the time limited constraint
Consider tangible aspect (i.e. Reddit avatars, NFTs etc)
Providing a more apparent way to disable Colorways

Although I cannot share any specifics around what we will commit to at this moment, I can assure you that all of your feedback is being considered and discussed with the internal team. We look forward to providing more updates in the future!

Best,

Ray

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

kremlinbot — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 05:55:00 GMT

Allowing users to create customized Colorways

So, Firefox Color?

Consider tangible aspect (i.e. Reddit avatars, NFTs etc)

Literally no one asked for this.

Thanks for #4, I guess 🙂 #2 will also be useful for some

Re: The Independent Voices Colorway collection has arrived! What’s your favorite Colorway?

Jon — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:56:24 GMT

Hey all,

Thanks so much for participating in the discussion. We are closing out this thread, but want to encourage you to continue sharing your feedback/ideas about this feature (and other topics, of course) in new posts—just be sure to use the necessary labels and tags, so your posts are easily searched for and discovered.

Also, a new discussion hosted by a Firefox Product Manager has just kicked off here: Importing Autofill Data - Tell us what you think! Feel free to join and share your feedback on this feature we're exploring.

This is an ongoing series here in the Mozilla Connect community, so we look forward to continuing to collaborate with you all 💪

-The Community Team