1777772 - Colorway Closet: Use always System Color for the background - Please don't switch between a white/dark background

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Mehmet]

104.0a1 (2022-07-01) (64-Bit)
macOS 12.4

Steps to reproduce:
1.) Enable System Dark Mode in OS-Settings
2.) Set browser.theme.colorway-closet to true
3.) Go to about:addons
4.) Open the Colorway Closet
5.) Select between Soft/Balanced/Bold

Actual: The background of Colorway Closet switches between Light/Dark, which burns my eyes because I expect always a dark background in Firefox when I am using System Dark Mode.

Expected: The background of the Colorway Closet should consider System Dark Mode Setting and leave the background always dark.

(In System Light Mode, the background should be then always light.)

A screencast is attached.

Thanks for checking.

Comment 1

[Mehmet]

Attachment: Screenrecording

• Screenrecording.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This is expected behavior. The dialog uses the same settings as web content and about: pages. In about:preferences under "General > Language and Appearance > Website appearance", you can change that setting to always follow the System theme rather than the Firefox theme.

Comment 3

[Mehmet]

Hello Dão,
Thanks for your feedback. I tried it with all "Website appearance" variations, but unfortunately it didn't help. The background color of the dialog changes always between white/black when switching between Soft/Balanced/Bold :(

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Yeah, so it looks like I was wrong about the dialog using content settings. It's still expected behavior though that such UI surfaces are affected by the Firefox theme.

Comment 5

[Mehmet]

Alright, again, thanks for your feedback :)