1588847 - [10.15] browser system text illegible on white background Mac os Catalina Dark mode on/off

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect, P3)

Description

[RG2]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2019-10-14 at 9.48.21 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Expected results:

It should be black text or something that don't blend with the background.

Comment 1

[RG2]

about:support

https://pastebin.com/XGXQfTaj

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Not seeing this on my machine running 69 release, but I have a different graphics setup. Adding Camelia to see if she sees it.

Comment 3

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

We have macOS 10.15 machines with Intel (Intel HD Graphics 6000, Intel Iris Pro) and we can't reproduce this issue here (tested on Firefox 69.0.3 and Firefox 70). We don't have macOS 10.15 machine with AMD Radeon.

Comment 4

[Snow]

I am experiencing the same issue (and have done through all Catalina betas, as well as with Firefox 70 beta). Menus and dialogs are white.

Happens whether Firefox is on light or dark theme and whether the OS is on light or dark theme.

about:support:
https://pastebin.com/mQpCbxPi

Screenshots:

• Light OS, light Firefox context menu:
  https://i.imgur.com/BCvpx8B.png

• Dark OS, dark Firefox context menu:
  https://i.imgur.com/Z2D2Mar.png

• Dark OS, dark Firefox dialog:
  https://i.imgur.com/mhLEoZy.png

• Dark OS, dark Firefox safe mode dialog, before browser even starts:
  https://i.imgur.com/OZlhwsU.png

Thanks.

Comment 5

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

(In reply to Snow from comment #4)

I am experiencing the same issue (and have done through all Catalina betas, as well as with Firefox 70 beta). Menus and dialogs are white.

Snow, what kind of Mac do you have and can you post the graphics section of about:support?

Comment 6

[Snow]

(In reply to Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel] from comment #5)

Snow, what kind of Mac do you have and can you post the graphics section of about:support?

2014 MacBook Air 11-inch with Intel HD Graphics 5000.

about:support:
https://pastebin.com/mQpCbxPi

Comment 7

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Does checking System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> "Reduce Transparency" fix this for you?

Comment 8

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Oh, nevermind. I just saw the other screenshots that demonstrate that this is not just an issue with context menus.

Comment 9

[Snow]

(In reply to Markus Stange [:mstange] from comment #7)

Does checking System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> "Reduce Transparency" fix this for you?

(In reply to Markus Stange [:mstange] from comment #8)

Oh, nevermind. I just saw the other screenshots that demonstrate that this is not just an issue with context menus.

Just for completeness, no, Reduce Transparency does not solve the issue. I actually used to have that setting on and only disabled it because at least against dark websites, white on translucent menus was more legible than white on opaque white menus.

Comment 10

[RG2]

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Found a solution. Reinstall macOS Catalina. No need to wipe the drive.

Hope this help.

Comment 11

[Asif Youssuff]

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Another user seeing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fxvco9/changed_to_dark_mode_on_my_mac_and_now_certain/

about:support in comment 12.

Comment 12

[Asif Youssuff]

Attachment: about:support

Comment 13

[Asif Youssuff]

User in comment 11 says:

I believe I have figured out the issue. I had messed around with MacOs wanting a dark status bar while still in light mode. This command here in terminal solved it all: defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance

Comment 14

[u661518]

I can confirm this solution works. I had this issue when following this guide: https://osxdaily.com/2018/10/15/dark-menu-dock-light-theme-macos/. It appears that making the menu bar dark through "defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes" has some unintended consequences on macOS 10.14+.

User in comment 11 says:

I believe I have figured out the issue. I had messed around with MacOs wanting a dark status bar while still in light mode. This command here in terminal solved it all: defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance

Comment 15

[Snow]

(In reply to Asif Youssuff from comment #13)

User in comment 11 says:

I believe I have figured out the issue. I had messed around with MacOs wanting a dark status bar while still in light mode. This command here in terminal solved it all: defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance

(In reply to anhalamine_fyces from comment #14)

I can confirm this solution works. I had this issue when following this guide: https://osxdaily.com/2018/10/15/dark-menu-dock-light-theme-macos/. It appears that making the menu bar dark through "defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes" has some unintended consequences on macOS 10.14+.

Thank you, this works for me too. Though I'd like to note that I was not using dark menu bar and light theme in Catalina. Just standard dark mode and standard light mode. Must have had NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance written from my previous macOS install. Hopefully the Firefox team can fix this bug for everyone now the cause has been found.

Comment 16

[Lee Salzman [:lsalzman]]

Jeff, is this still an issue?

Comment 17

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

I can't reproduce this on 10.15 in dark mode with setting "defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes".

RG2 or Snow, can you still reproduce this?

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