183783 - Preferences -> Appearance -> Colors -> Use My Chosen Colors, etc. seems to be the default.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Rob Perez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I don't know is this is specific to my system or not, but when I installed
Mozilla 1.2 and later 1.2.1, the setting:

Preferences -> Appearance -> Colors -> Use My Chosen Colors, etc. seems to be
the default setting. 

This is a Bad Thing.

Now, being a developer, I should have known enough to check this right away, but
I thought I had a really major bug on my hands because the backgrounds/colors on
web pages looked horrible because everything was white. I uninstalled and
re-installed more than once trying to fix this until I figured out the problem.

If nobody else is having this problem, by all means disregard this report. If
this setting is deliberate, see Bad Thing above. I was seriously ready to stop
using this browser altogether.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install the browser
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Apperance setting defaulted to "Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and
the background image specified."

Expected Results:  
Defaulted to "Always use the colors and backgrounds specified by the web page"

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

reassign

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's certainly not deliberate and the default setting should not be to "use my
chosen colors".... Did you install on top of a previous installation by any
chance?  Do you use the same profile in Mozilla and NS6/7?

Comment 3

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

Reporter, Mozilla 1.2.1 is getting old, could you please retest with a newer
version of mozilla, either the latest milestone or a recent nightly?

Comment 4

[Andreas Kunz]

Rob, the pref is
browser.display.use_document_colors
and the source file for its default is at:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js#70
and says
pref("browser.display.use_document_colors", true);

So you probably changed that pref at some time. Reinstalling does not change it
because the pref is saved in your profile.
Resolving as INVALID because this does not seem to be a bug. However, please
report again if this setting is still the said one if using a newly created profile.
In this case please check browser.display.use_document_colors in about:config
and in the prefs.js file of that new profile.