1575770 - developer tools don't adhere to system theme

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1505090

(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Max Dominik Weber]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. be on the dark system theme (macOS Mojave)
2. open developer tools using Tools > Web Developer > Toggle Tools or ⌥⌘I

Actual results:

The developer tools appear in their light theme.

Expected results:

They should be shown in the dark theme.
If this is not possible for some reason, maybe there could be a third option under “Themes” in the developer tools settings: Dark, Light, and Auto.

Comment 1

[Virginia (please send need info request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi Max,

I was able to replicate the issue on Firefox Nightly 70.0a1 and Firefox Release 68.0.2. I'll mark this ticket as NEW and add a product and component to it. Feel free to change it for a more appropriate one.

Thank you for your report!

Comment 2

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

Change the status for beta to have the same as nightly and release.
For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.

Comment 3

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Thanks for filing. I'm turning this into an enhancement request. You can already change the theme from light to dark, but doing the switch contextually to the operating system's preference would be nice indeed.
I think Chrome does this automatically already.