1031871 - Right click drop-down text difficult to read.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[vijay krishna m]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140628030201

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox Nightly, open a webpage with lot of text or images on it (For example: any wikipedia page, netflix). Right click on the page. 


Actual results:

The drop-down text becomes difficult to read as it overlaps with the background. Same thing happens if I click on any menu bar items.


Expected results:

Drop-down text should be clearly visible

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Can you provide a screenshot? Does this happen if you restart Firefox in safe mode? ( https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode )

Comment 2

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

It works for me using latest Nightly 33.0a1 2014-06-29 under Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit.

Comment 3

[vijay krishna m]

Attachment: ff_testing_1.zip

Here are pics of this issue.I had to take screen shots from my phone because drop-down list is disappearing as soon as i press prntscr button.

Comment 4

[vijay krishna m]

I took these pics in Fedora 20 with KDE desktop. Both OS and Nightly are up to date. Earlier I faced this issue in Ubuntu 14.04.

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to vijay krishna m from comment #4)
> I took these pics in Fedora 20 with KDE desktop. Both OS and Nightly are up
> to date. Earlier I faced this issue in Ubuntu 14.04.

Can you check against an empty profile and in safe mode? See the link I posted in comment #1 for how to enable safe mode...

Comment 6

[vijay krishna m]

Attachment: 20140630_120733.jpg

Here is attachment of this issue with Nightly in safe mode.

I also tested this issue with Mate and Gnome desktops and this issue doesn't happen in those desktop environments. Also this doesn't happen with Firefox stable in KDE.

Comment 7

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This is really odd. Were the menus always half-transparent like this, or did it break recently ?

Comment 8

[vijay krishna m]

I am not sure when it broke. I only noticed it on Friday.

Comment 9

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to vijay krishna m from comment #8)
> I am not sure when it broke. I only noticed it on Friday.

Can you try to find a regression range using http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/ ?

Comment 10

[vijay krishna m]

I installed mozregression and executed tests with it. All tests succeeded and I did not find any regression. 

I have a symlink that points to Firefox nightly executable in /usr/local/bin. This issue only happens when i open Nightly executable through the symlink. It doesn't happen if i directly open Nightly.

I also have same setup in a different machine. This issue doesn't happen in that machine.

Comment 11

[vijay krishna m]

I am seeing this same issue in Ubuntu 14.04 with unity desktop. I added a video to youtube that I recorded using simple screen recorder. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGF6ekI0UCw

Perhaps others can reproduce using these steps.

1. Copy Firefox nightly directory to /usr/local/bin.
2. Create a symlink in /usr/local/bin pointing to Firefox nightly binary and use that symlink to launch Firefox. 

I am seeing this issue in a different computer than earlier reported. I did not see this issue on this computer before.