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I use Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome. Is there any possibility to change the color of active tab in chrome without changing the theme?

I use GTK+ theme and I want to keep the consistency. Now active and inactive tabs are the same color this is hard to differentiate them.

This is how tabs in Chrome look
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This is how how tabs in Firefox look, much easier to tell which one is active
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  • Likely this can be done through cusatom.css. See superuser.com/questions/459901/…
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 3:55
  • You mean in the tab bar itself, the actual tab, not a new tab's background? Chromium already seems to do this (a little), darker grey for inactive, light grey when hovering over, and even lighter grey when active. Firefox had great extensions/add-ons for this, but Chrome's web store seems to only have "change new tab background" extensions... maybe your searching there will be more fruitful
    – Xen2050
    Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 4:10
  • @Xen2050 yes, tab itself.
    – Ives
    Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 5:06

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The Ubuntu Black Magic Theme - U.F. seems to have a higher contrast between active (white) & inactive (dark grey) tabs.

Here's the screenshot from it's page, though inactive tabs look darker on Debian xfce, looks like a one-click install & undo so definitely worth a try at least:

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How dark/light a theme makes the tab bar doesn't seem to be advertised well, so browsing & randomly trying a few might bring some luck.

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    I prefer not to change the chrome theme to keep the UI consistency with GTK.
    – Ives
    Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 4:58
  • Themes only seem to change the window bar & border colours for me, which seems like most of your goal, but maybe searching you'll find a theme that matches your gtk theme
    – Xen2050
    Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 5:36

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