254844 - when you try to highlight over a black background you cannot see where you hilighted making it incredibly hard to copy and paste

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56314

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[nick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

it happens on any page that has a black background and white text like the
kingsofchaos.com web site.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the webpage kingsofchaos.com
2.find any of there normal white text (its there default) try to highlight it
3.you cannot see what you have highlited so its incredibly hard to copy and paste

Actual Results:  
nothing was in my buffer because i could not see what i was highlighting

Expected Results:  
had an alt. color for highlighting black bacgrounds and white text

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56314 ***