Windows 10: Irritating little icon glitch

On my start menu, the tiled part, all my icons have the same blue background, except Firefox and Thunderbird which are butt ugly gray. Chrome was also gray but I managed to change it by renaming chrome.VisualElementsManifest.xml to chrome.VisualElementsManifest.xml.bk and reselecting the icon. Cannot find similar files for the 2 Mozilla programs. Just changing icon does nothing (it does change the icon but retains gray background).

Also tried a utility from Windows Club designed for this purpose but it can't touch these 2 icons.

Ideas?

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I can't help you, as I'm just learning to personalize tiles manually, but I will post two forum members names, with mentions, that possibly can, as this is there area of expertise.
Let's see who gets here first, and shine the Bat light::
Calling @Edwin and @Hopachi

 

Hi this might help: (It covers win 10 too, it says)
[Tip] Customize Start Screen Tiles Background Color, Text Color and Logo in Windows 8.1 and Later - AskVG

 

True.
This should do it. *Cool

 

Not sure if they use a tile but that's possible.
Do you have a screenshot of Firefox and Thunderbird icons?

In case of the VisualElementsManifest.xml, don't rename it: you can edit it and change the background color:
Code: BackgroundColor="#123456"[/quote]
Color in hexadecimal notation. Save the xml.
Un-pin and re-pin the program.

 

Excellent idea. Unfortunately, there's this caveat:

"Also this method doesn't work for Mozilla Firefox web browser as Firefox registers itself as a "dual-mode" web browser and Windows handles web browsers differently. That's why even if you put a visualelementsmanifest.xml file inside Firefox folder, it gets ignored by Windows."

Appears to apply to Mozilla Thunderbird too. I don't have time to try recreating icons in Photoshop just now, got 2 feet of snow to dig out, but will put it on the todo list.

 

I only have Firefox Dev Edition but it's also grey.
Must be somehow automatically generated; I don't see Firefox as dual mode, must have ignored something after the install a while ago.
Will give it a try.

 

Not a big deal, just irritating.

 

All other tiles are blue? I guess from the theme color?

 

Correct. Just Firefox and Thunderbird remain gray.

 

I have just created a tile for Firefox and have no problem getting the background color close, I could have exactly matched it if I took the time though.



firefox tile pack.zip

Try downloading SMACC, the link is in my signature, for a tool that gives you the RGB where you click the mouse, then go to RGB color (255, 128, 0) to Hex, Pantone, RAL, HSL, HSV, HSB, JSON. Get color scheme. to get the HEX value after entering the RGB value.

 

It seems the color isn't generated automatically: the grey is forced somewhere, don't know where. Everyone is affected by this. Alt least fresh installs of Firefox 43.
What I did is test with a fresh install of Firefox 43.

Cliff,
Nice work, however it doesn't want to apply the custom tile. It repins grey. *Think
Checked with a copy of the firefox.exe from desktop and pin it to start and auto color of icon tile is yellowish, blue, the theme color:



Confirmed that the grey is forced.

So far, nothing to do for the matter.

 

You might have to check in the start menu folder(right click icon and more>>open file location and delete the old shortcut so the new tile can take over. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs