1816366 - [TB 110.0b4] URL / Link colour lack contrast in dark theme

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Kiran]

Attachment: link-lack-contrast-in-dark-mode.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using TB 110.0b4 in dark mode on Windows 11.
When replying to emails containing links, unable to read the links clearly

Actual results:

The contrast colour for the links in dark theme do not make them legible

Expected results:

The colour contrast for a link should be configurable or a set to a default colour that makes it legible in dark mode.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks Kiran, that's true!

Links inserted by user during composition are also affected.

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

The colours can be set in Settings > General > Colors...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reply fails with 115.0b4, but ...

Links inserted by user during composition are also affected.

This does not reproduce for me.

Comment 4

[Kiran]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)

Reply fails with 115.0b4, but ...

Links inserted by user during composition are also affected.

This does not reproduce for me.

Attached a new image - where the existing links in an email (unvisited links, and visited links) are not clearly legible, because of the default link colours in a dark theme.

Comment 5

[Kiran]

Attachment: new-links-unvisited-links-visited-links-poor-legibility-because-of-default-link-colours.png

Comment 6

[frankaen]

(In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #2)

The colours can be set in Settings > General > Colors...

Not much:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792531

This setting doesn't take any effect work for some years.