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"Enable Incognito brand consistency in desktop" flag is gone! What now?

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Description

I did update Brave today and my custom installed theme is gone from incognito mode and now I want use my installed theme in incognito mode again (like before too) but I can’t find the flag “Enable Incognito brand consistency in desktop” anymore in the brave://flags to disable.Why is it gone or renamed maybe etc?

Actual result:

Incognito mode is purple colored and menus having black backgrounds.I hate that look and I can not avoid it because the flag entry is no more present (maybe it is and was re-named).

Expected result:

I do expect a simple option in the main settings to enable/disable that dark mode context menu and purple color in incognito mode.Normaly the used theme should also be used in incognito mode too by default without to play around in flags to find any entry to make it work.At all I just want to use my choosen theme what I have installed from Chrome store ALSO in incognito mode.Is that so hard to understand for you guys?Or just put another slider in the Appearance right under the Theme entry and call this “Allow theme in incognito mode” and thats it.So simple you should do it to give the user the choice to enable / disable it.Just think about it so nobody wants to play around with flags for this option specially if the flag gets changed or removed etc.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave		1.37.109 Chromium: 100.0.4896.60 (Official Build) (64-bit) 
Revision	6a5d10861ce8de5fce22564658033b43cb7de047-refs/branch-heads/4896@{#875}
OS		Windows 10 Version 21H1 (Build 19043.1586)

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created a year ago
  • Reactions:2
  • Comments:10 (1 by maintainers)

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spylogsstercommented, Aug 8, 2022

Hi @Dean-Corso That was experimental feature flags and they have been removed from Chromium since 24 Jan 2022 Commit https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/c99db70f146b2778c05ea3c672068f0def22500d

Checked in Google Chrome 104 and it doesnt work for me too. Incognito windows stay with incognito theme

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Dean-Corsocommented, Aug 4, 2022

Helle @bsclifton,

I’m surprised that anyone did answer me now! Very good and thank you for that step. I also can understand that you wanted and have removed my quote message at the end so this should show you guys that I’am really furious because nothing happens till today what makes people pretty angry of course so I hope you do understand it.

So the big question which is still open is why does Chrome / Brave change things which are good? I’m a normal browser user like many others too and also many of use want to determine how the browser has to look because of that there are much members who creating custom themes (see Chrome Store) we can use but since a longer time its no more possible to use themes in incognito mode what is absolutely incomprehensible. There is no logical reason to do this. The Chrome dev did make it harder and harder over a longer while using themes in I-Mode by changing flags & removing them later and thats just pur chicane and I don’t want to accept that. We all respectively the most “Brave-Browser” users want to get back the possibility to decide how the browser should look by installed themes “also in incognito mode” and not just in normal mode. Thats the whole point. So if Chrome itself dosen’t want to allow it anymore that their users decide by themself about the themes in I-Mode then its your task to talk with the Chrome dev team to allow it again or otherwise just change the source or create a patch or whatever to make it work. Thats all. “My Browser - My Style”! Only exception is Chrome / Brave since over four months. Please change this back. Thank you.

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