Open Bug 1399259 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

WebExtension popup difficult to read if the desktop environment uses a dark OS theme

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(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect, P3)

57 Branch
defect

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(firefox57 wontfix)

Tracking Status
firefox57 --- wontfix

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(Reporter: arnaud.jacquemin+bugzilla, Unassigned)

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(Keywords: nightly-community)

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When I use a dark theme on my desktop environment, I can't read the texts in the popups opened by browser actions icons, because the text color is dark on a dark background.

This happens independently of the Firefox theme I'm using.

It looks like the text color is hard-coded to #222426 (dark grey) by a rule in chrome://browser/content/extension.css (I used the add-on debugger to inspect the text using this trick : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Debugging#Debugging_popups)
The background color of the popup seems to be set by the desktop environment (GTK3 theme on Linux) because it changes if I change the desktop theme.

I think the default text color of the extension's popup should follow the main text color of the desktop environment.
Component: Theme → WebExtensions: Frontend
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Summary: WebExtension popup difficult to read if the desktop environment uses a dark theme → WebExtension popup difficult to read if the desktop environment uses a dark gtk theme
Blocks: 1280128
This bug is not specific to Linux : here is a screenshot of the same issue using a dark (OS) theme on Windows 7.
Summary: WebExtension popup difficult to read if the desktop environment uses a dark gtk theme → WebExtension popup difficult to read if the desktop environment uses a dark OS theme
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Priority: -- → P3
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
Severity: normal → S3
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