Change inactive tab dimming, darkness

This began to be addressed in "Can color be added back to inactive tabs?" but was closed with in a week with no solution, though "130 have this problem," as using the Stylish extension was the only solution but which really is not the solution all all.
The short question is where in about:config or elsewhere can the background tabs be restored to have the same level of brightness as the active ones. The solution to make the active ones more identifiable would be to change the color of them, which i could do with the Colorful Tabs extension before FF. V. 29, or the color and the font posture, which i could do with the TabMixPlus extension before FF. V. 29, but not now.
I am using the Nuvola theme as a replacement for the NOIA4 theme, which i think was the best and more customizable theme ever offered, but no longer works under FF 29, and the author gave up.
While it may seem to make sense to devs that dimming the background tabs in order to more easily ID the active tab, that seems to presume that only a few tabs are open, and the default theme is used.
However, I usually have many many tabs open due to forums I post on and research and other pages i want to get back or often check, and use TabMixPlus to enable multiple tab rows, and also Colorful Tabs for better identification. I see these as the 2 most useful extensions, along with Session Manager.
I still see Firefox as the best browser by far for power users due to the extensions the community offers , and am sorry to see them becoming more like Chrome, while supporting what really is not compatible with design.

Thanks, but as i had said, i have a theme, Nuvola, and also that using Stylish is not the solution. That theme is not as compact as Nuvola, which is attached, along with a previous 20+ FF ver. shot with the NOIA4 theme
TabMixPlus already had the solution it seems the devs were aiming at, that of differentiating btwn active and inactive tabs, which was to make the active one have a certain color and font style, while still allowing the rest to be seen clearly. But except for the font posture, that option does not work anymore.
Classic theme restorer also enables changing the font color and attributes of the active tab, but the color of the active tab will not change, nor does that work with Colorful tabs though it enables different colors on tabs .
Often i am looking for a different tab to switch to, and now it is like having a certain shoe highlighted in a dim closest, but the rest are not as clearly seen as one would like.
This is not a big deal, but i use FF a lot, and keeping many tabs open and quickly accessible helps with speed. I had to make a userChrome.css file with a script the Nuvola theme dev provided to get rid of the default read heart on every tab that did not have its own favicon, and thought maybe there was a way to get my bright tabs back.
Thanks.

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