266433 - background color of text fields should be based on Windows default

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195533

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

In text boxes, like the one I'm typing in now, the field color should default to
the Windows default field color.  The font color reacts appropriately, but if
you have a light font and a dark background set up, it is difficult to see the
font in a white field.  This works properly in Netscape 7.0 for XP and 98, and
in Mozilla for 98, but NOT in Mozilla or Firefox for XP.  Lists work properly in
XP Mozilla and Firefox, as well.  As far as I've noticed, it's only in fields
where you can type.

Here's the history of this problem not being solved in Mozilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195533

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the Windows default font color to something light and the background to
something dark.
2. Go to any page with a text field.
3. Squint and swear as you try to enter text into the field.
Actual Results:  
The light colored font is very hard to see.  If I had selected pure white as the
font color, it would be invisible.

Expected Results:  
It should use the default background color in text boxes, if it's going to use
the default font color.  If it's going to insist on using white as the text box
color, it should not use the default font color, because it might be too light
to see.

Comment 1

[bugzilla]

This issue is not fixed in 1.0.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[bugzilla]

The problem still exists in Firefox 1.0.6 and 1.0.7.  I only stopped filing
reports after it seemed clear that you weren't interested in fixing the problem.
 (I've been reporting this for years, since the problem also exists in the
regular Mozilla browser.)  You have defeated me, however, because I have given
up and changed my Windows settings to deal with the bug.

Still easily repeatable with all Windows XP systems.

Comment 4

[John Hutton]

Here is another simple way to find this bug (Under XP)
Display Properties->Appearance->Advanced
  Item->Window
Change the background color to black and the font color to white.  You could also pick other colors to highlight where the problem exists.

Here are some of the issues:

Tabs:  Use the font color here but not the window background color (Ends up with white on white).
Options:  Go into Firefox options.  While the other tabs work correctly, the Advanced and Privacy tabs end up with white on white.

Looks like there are some "hard coded" colors in the code or there are some mismatched uses of the font and background colors.

While this is a pain, I have found that several other programs under XP have the same issue.  I to end up playing with my color setting between regular work and work which requires web access.

Any way to get this confirmed and fixed?  Is there a viable development process under XP that I could get into the code and fix this myself?  (betting it is simply doublechecking the background/foreground system variable used)

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This is a dupe of 195533, which you referenced in comment 0 (and presumably other, older bugs). That bug, while in core, will affect Firefox if implemented. Resolving as a duplicate of bug 195533.