175041 - Text and Background colour settings improperly applied

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Jan Sacharuk]

I've set my colour settings to cyan and black (foreground and background). While
this works fine in mail, on some pages (http://www.canada.com) the text of
stories will appear cyan on a white background, despite my insistence that the
browser use the default colours specified by the webpage. Additionally, the help
facitilies also display in cyan on a white background, ignoring that the black
background has been set.

So:

1) Change foreground and background colours away from default white and black.
What colours you pick is unimportant.

2) Try viewing
http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id={E3183AE4-9883-4635-9D99-4D4194585D69}

3) Also try viewing Help->Help Contents. Notice how the main text panel will
flash the colour of your background colour selection briefly before changing to
a white background.

The result is that the foreground colour is respected, but the background colour
is ignored. As well, it appears that despite selecting 'always use the colours
and background specified by the webpage', this may not be respected. It is worth
noting, however, that http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html#bug_severity
displays colours properly.

Either the colours should appear as selected, or the webpage's default colours
should be displayed.

Occurs on: Win32, Mozilla Build 2001101612

Comment 1

[Jan Sacharuk]

*** Bug 175035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Jan, could you please re-test this? It works for me with 1.6 on Win2k.
Does this problem still happen anywhere?

Please make sure you have unchecked "Use system colors" and checked "Use my
chosen colors".

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a)
Gecko/20040207

Marking WFM