Red/Yellow/Green buttons now gray

Since 'upgrading' to Yosemite, the colored buttons on the upper left are now all gray on the Safari screen. iTunes buttons are still colored, just not on Safari. Please note that I am not in full screen mode: the buttons are there, it's just that they are gray. I've looked through Safari Preferences but can't find any way to fix this.
It's a small annoyance, but there are so many other small annoyances with Apple these days, I'm really not willing to put up with this one if there's a way to fix it. Thanks for any help.
OSX Yosemite Version 10.10.1
Safari Version 8.0.2 (10600.2.5)

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