Status area improvements:...

chrome/browser/views/status_bubble_views.cc

Index: chrome/browser/views/status_bubble_views.cc
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--- chrome/browser/views/status_bubble_views.cc	(revision 44004)
+++ chrome/browser/views/status_bubble_views.cc	(working copy)
@@ -431,12 +431,18 @@
   SkColor text_color =
       theme_provider_->GetColor(BrowserThemeProvider::COLOR_TAB_TEXT);
 
-  // DrawStringInt doesn't handle alpha, so we'll do the blending ourselves.
-  text_color = SkColorSetARGB(
-      SkColorGetA(text_color),
+  // Make text half transparent.
+#if defined(OS_WIN)
+  // DrawStringInt doesn't handle alpha on windows,
+  // so we'll do the blending ourselves.
+  text_color = SkColorSetRGB(
       (SkColorGetR(text_color) + SkColorGetR(toolbar_color)) / 2,
       (SkColorGetG(text_color) + SkColorGetR(toolbar_color)) / 2,
       (SkColorGetB(text_color) + SkColorGetR(toolbar_color)) / 2);
+#else
+  text_color = SkColorSetA(text_color, 127);
+#endif
+
   canvas->DrawStringInt(text_,
                         views::Label::font(),
                         text_color,