1381334 - Visited Links color picker and its about:config preference doesn't work

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P5)

Description

[smartfon.reddit]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170716030208

Steps to reproduce:

Options>General>Fonts & Colors>Colors>Visited Links> click on the color to open the color picker. The table is all grey with only the bottom row being shades of black, and the very first box on to-left corner being white. Click elsewhere to close the popup color picker. Click on the color again to open the color picker again. This time the color table shows properly. Pick red and click OK. Restart the browser and visit links. They are still purple.

Open about:config and manually choose a color for browser.visited_color. Doesn't make a difference.

This is the first time I'm doing this so it's impossible to tell when the problem begun. Tested in Safe Mode.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

I see the regression range with two cycles:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=fcadf6ec5ccf67c480047de89b5d063116938fea&tochange=28681d252003e3110105473754da2f4097cb83a6

Perhaps due to:
ba6fc133264d	Joseph Yeh — Bug 1036595 - Convert the 'Clear recent history' dialog to be in-content; r=MattN 

/browser/components/preferences/in-content/subdialogs.js changes.

Comment 2

[MarjaE]

Also affects MacOS.

Goes back before June 16th, 2011, so it's an older bug than shown here.