I love the pale solid colors and have them on my W7, but I can't download them to W 8. Are they not compatible?

I can't use any of the colored, photo, darker, or lighter themes as they all make it too hard to read. This one is the best shade of grey, with just enough graphic to keep it from being plain, but not making it hard to read.
But why not go ahead and make the text as dark as the one with contrast by janspambox? It's easier to read.

Самая лучшая тема. Стильный светлый минималистичный дизайн, приятный глазу. Никаких отвлекающих рисунков, или режущих глаз сочетаний цветов.

Schlicht gewinnt immer. Daher eines meiner liebsten!

Simple, yet it looks great.

I use this theme on Win 7 and it looks just great. It is simple, it is nice. Best regards to ntpl!

This is very nice. Most themes are too dark and having crazy animations and pictures will inhibit the functionality of the browser. I really just wanted a slightly different color or anything even though the stock was not so bad. This is a pretty nice change and it's clean and functional.

A recommendation however, would be to do something with the tabs. Maybe add some of the brushed metal texture. Right now it's just showing as dark grey and really like grey(almost white).

light gray brushed metal would be great if the
letters were Bold....ie...dark...so one could read it.

Einfach, aber gut

Simple but nice.

This is so sleek and clear, and works and looks great with the multirow bookmarks toolbar. Thank you

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Because is easy to be familiar by a simple design, but is a common design; four evaluation points

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Хоть и не красочно зато очень даже не плохо смотрится!
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Very simple, clean. No problems that I can see, one of the very best.

Tired of getting transparency on menu bar?
Use this lil' wallpaper for your header, and you'll forget about the clutter brought by Aero.

A great theme that doesn't rely on you having a ton of toolbars.

Love this! A nice brushed metal theme.

always been watching for smooth solid themes. Nice one, reminds me of the microwave oven's surface