In the beginning, I'd like to express my sincere thanks for all the effort in keeping people like me equipped with a browser not as bizarre as Firefox these days, yet not a Chrome clone. Specifically, thanks for keeping gtk2 supported on the Linux version for all this time - on the very day Pale Moon releases a version without support for that, I would have to make the unfortunate decision of finding myself some sort of a Chrome clone, with even the completely custom interfaces being more reliable than what gtk3 unfortunately is.
I have been using Pale Moon since a pretty long time, and the recent 28.0.0 release sadly felt like a noticeable visual downgrade to me. Specifically, all the browser parts that aren't directly related to Australis, yet are themed in cooperation with the system, seem to now be themed like their Firefox 52 ESR counterparts - and that's sadly not the look that people like me, often hating gtk3 even more than loving gtk2, appreciate.
In particular, the new Pale Moon release closely follows Firefox 52 ESR in bloating many of the widgets with unnecessary spacing, something seen all around in the "gtk3 world", while typically despised by the people still using gtk2. Furthermore, the scrollbars don't seem to retain full compatibility with the custom themes, with their background becoming all white, which I guess is a regression even when an user considers gtk3 usable, so I hereby report that.
To back up these claims, I'm attaching a rough comparison between a few places in Pale Moon 27.9.4 and Pale Moon 28.0.0, as well as a troubleshooting.txt (well, actually json, that extension isn't accepted for some reason) of my Pale Moon 28.0.0. They were all taken on freshly made Pale Moon profiles, with the theme White Moon installed.
Is there a chance that the described parts of Pale Moon's interface get backported to their 27.9.4 counterparts? I, for one, would be very thankful for that, perhaps just as much as I am for the lack of Australis.
Thank You Very Much.
