1415511 - Firefox Quantum: While using Dark theme in ubuntu text inside textbox is not visible in some cases.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[aishwaryshrivastava]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2017-11-08 17-02-10.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171106194249

Steps to reproduce:

Open any default text box (HTML) in Firefox Quantum.
For example open Google docs and create a new document. 
You can see that the name of document in upper left corner in the text box is not clearly visible.



Actual results:

The text box background is dark and the text color is also dark which is making it difficult to read.


Expected results:

There should be proper contrast in color of text and text box background.

Comment 1

[aishwaryshrivastava]

I wish this bug is fixed beofre the realease, as it is creating problem in filling forms in the browser.
Forms are essential part of any webpage.

Comment 2

[aishwaryshrivastava]

Hello, I have recently found that this issue exist only for dark gtk themes in Debians.

https://twitter.com/toxicaishwary/status/929989609315975169

Comment 3

[Storm]

The fact that Firefox cannot handle dark desktop themes was reported many times FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS.

Seventeen years. And still an issue.

Webpages display partly in system colors causing white on white or black on black text/form elements, while parts of the Firefox UI defy every dark theme and stay eye-bruning white.

I hope that finally Quantum will fix this... but it MADE IT WORSE!

Now several parts of the FF GUI are affected, including extensions' GUI and their moz-extension:// pages, while lot of the FF GUI (eg Settings) is eye-burning white even if you use the dark FF theme.


All you need to do to fix the websites is to use the widespread defaults instead of system colors to render webpages.

color:black;
background-color:white;

DONE.

But you can't do this for 17 years for reasons beyond comprehension.

WORKS in Chrome (USES GTK TOO!)
WORKS in Internet Explorer
WORKS in Microsoft Edge
WORKS in pretty much EVERYTHING other than Firefox.


Just a few tickets about problems with dark themes, in order:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315 <--- 17 years old report!!! Still "New"!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1195138
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268338
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283086
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1379725
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1385518
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391007
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393927
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402312
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408121
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1414693
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1415511
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418090
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424422
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425161
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425517

Comment 4

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Reporter, are you still experiencing this issue?

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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