>Unlike you I am not in the least worried about the width. What bothers me is
>the clarity and legibility. And the original version is much better. Much
>better contrast and fewer colours that add no functionality at all. (That
>unnecessary blue stripe that necessitates changing the colour of the writing
>so that the two stripes are different colours instead of uniform. Tiring and
>harder to read.)
That "blue stripe" is a GTK theme and has nothing to do with the webpage.
There is nothing on the webpage that is not on the original webpage. There is no change in content, colours, or anything else on the webpage at all. The only thing that was adjusted was the capacity to suit many screen sizes and this was done in the css by using percentages instead of fixed widths.
There is no reason for you to change any font colour because of that "blue stripe".