Turn of Safari theme-color matching?

Safari 15 on Mac OS introduced a new feature where it matches the toolbar color to the theme-color attribute of the selected tab. The beta had a way to turn this off, but I can't find it in the preferences of the GA release.

I hate it - help!!

iMac 27″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Sep 20, 2021 7:49 PM

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Scott 2 Author

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Sep 20, 2021 7:53 PM in response to Scott 2

Simple solve - they moved the preference from the Advanced tab of Safari Preferences to the Tabs tab, and renamed it to "Show color in tab bar".

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