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by alpaca128 2236 days ago
Honestly after getting used to it I like the change. Why? Because before it was often not easy to see if the input focus was on the address bar or somewhere else, and often I'd start typing and the input land somewhere I didn't expect. Now at least it's very clear, although I agree they could have done it better.
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...am I seeing the same thing as others?

I'm using up-to-date Firefox, but I toggled the about:config flag to get the old address bar, figuring I may as well use it while I can. Here is what the address bar looks like for me:

Focused: https://i.ibb.co/TWDw9WL/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-5-30-57-P...

Unfocused: https://i.ibb.co/QHd0SBm/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-5-31-01-P...

Do you not see the blue focus outline? It's pretty thick!

It’s not that thick, especially if you have a big screen and a busy website in the browser window
Huh, interesting. I wonder if they could have just made the line thicker then.
On windows they had a drop shadow effect outside the address bar which is less pronounced now.