1721292 - Menubar text always black, doesn't follow theme

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Theme, defect, P3)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

Attachment: firefox-invisible-menu.jpg

In Firefox 90.0, the menubar text is always black, regardless of what other colors the current theme uses.

I was using a dark theme, so my menubar became invisible, black on black.

I know the menubar isn't shown by default, but it's easy to turn on (right-click in the tab area and toggle "Menu Bar"), and until now it always followed the theme somehow, so in dark themes, the menubar text was white. Now it's always black so it's only visible in a light-background theme. Maybe before it used the text color for tabs, or for inactive tabs?

I was able to get my menu back by adding this to chrome/userChrome.css:

#main-menubar > menu {
color: white !important;
}

but that's not easily discoverable so a lot of users won't find it, and of course it won't follow any later theme changes I make, so I'll always have to remember to change userChrome.css when I change themes.

I'll attach a screenshot showing how it looks in the built-in Dark theme: you can vaguely see that there's something there (so actually the text isn't black, it's just a very very dark grey) but good luck reading it.

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

I'm not able to reproduce this. If this is still occurring (without any userChrome.css changes) can you re-open this bug with more details on what OS you are using and any relevant appearance and theme settings?