Active tab does not match theme when using theme selector from chrome://new-tab-page

Description

When using a theme color selected from chrome://new-tab-page, the active tab color is unaffected by the theme color section.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Go to chrome://new-tab-page
  2. Select a color theme from “Customize Brave” menu
  3. Observe the active tab color does not reflect the theme color selected

Actual result

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Expected result

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Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.77.5 Chromium: 133.0.6943.39 (Official Build) nightly (arm64)
4f479e415dc391d611c534cf5423aecc58cb28df
macOS Version 15.3 (Build 24D5034f)

Channel information

Occurs in all channels

Additionally, the light outline on the omnibox when selected, is purple regardless of color selected

Any update? Still seeing the issue on all versions

Apologies for the late reply here.
So basically this page, while available, isn’t actually “supposed” to be used. This is because we do not maintain it on our end and cannot guarantee that it won’t conflict with colors/theming that is built into the browser.

As for the issue itself, I’m not sure why the active tab/address bar highlight colors don’t accurately reflect the chosen theme/color but it is likely due to some conflict between these settings and what is built into Brave, as mentioned above.

The color themes are also able to be selected from Brave settings either going to Get started > Profile name and icon or (in the latest nightly) Appearance > Theme

Since these themes are also selectable from Brave settings, does the team plan to fix the active tab color issue?

@ajleitzke,
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking for here. This is intentional and is the same behavior in Chrome. For example, here is Brave with “Aqua” theme selected (light mode). Active tab is white/light so it can be easily seen:

Here is Chrome with “Aqua” theme selected (light mode). Active tab is white/light so it can be easily seen:

When selecting a color theme from dark mode, the theme doesn’t match Chrome.

In light mode Brave, and both light/dark mode Chrome, the active tab color matches the toolbar color like you showed:

In Brave in dark mode, this is not the case, instead the active tab is the standard gray color:

I see it now.
I’m going to open an issue for this, however I do not see the color discrepancy in light mode. When I set the same theme choices for Brave and Chrome in light mode, everything seems to match accordingly:

Apologies – I forgot you already opened one for this. Will ping the appropriate people in it.

Thank you! And yes I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue in light mode, only in dark mode.

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