437456 - Theme for Mac shows unreadable color scheme in bookmarks dialog (black text on dark background)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Stefan Scholl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; de; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008053008 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; de; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008053008 Firefox/3.0

When you add a bookmark and choose a folder, the folder listing is barely readable. The folder names are black and the background very dark gray.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stefan Scholl]

Attachment: Screenshot of the Bookmark Dialog

Comment 2

[Rotis]

On 10.5 the folder names are white and perfectly readable. On 10.4 it is black on gray, very bad. Since the FF3 "Final" is expected for June 17 it is safe to assume that this bug will stay.

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

They are also black and almost unreadable on my 10.5.

Comment 4

[Stefan Scholl]

I tried another theme (hard to find these days ...) and the bookmark dialog is readable. Had to switch back to the default one.

So it's really "just" something in the default FF3 theme for Mac.

Comment 6

[Stefan Scholl]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I tried another theme (hard to find these days ...) and the bookmark dialog is
> readable. Had to switch back to the default one.

The theme I tried was "Aero Silver Fox Basic 3.0.1". Just to see if it's a common problem or could be solved with changes to the theme.

Comment 7

[Hasham]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

Confirmed on 10.5

Comment 11

[Phil Pishioneri]

The problem appears to be in the profile. If I use Firefox from an account which has never used it before, or if I create a new profile, then that instance has dialog text of white characters.

I use (and only have) the default theme, though at one time I may have had another theme(s) installed and active.

Comment 12

[Phil Pishioneri]

For me, it appears that the Live HTTP Headers extension (<http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/>) is causing the problem. Disabling the extension (and restarting) was enough to fix the problem.

I'll be reporting a bug to the extension author.

Comment 13

[Stefan Scholl]

(In reply to comment #12)
> For me, it appears that the Live HTTP Headers extension
> (<http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/>) is causing the problem. Disabling the
> extension (and restarting) was enough to fix the problem.
> 
> I'll be reporting a bug to the extension author.

The text is white on dark gray when I disable this extension.

BUT: I don't have this problem on Windows XP or with another theme.

Comment 14

[Hasham]

Thanks, Phil! Did you contact the author yet? I'm marking this bug as invalid for now since it is an extension issue.

Comment 15

[Stefan Scholl]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Thanks, Phil! Did you contact the author yet? I'm marking this bug as invalid
> for now since it is an extension issue.
> 

Haven't you read comment #13? This is a problem in the theme, because other themes (on Mac or the default theme on Windows) don't have this problem. You can't expect authors of extensions to check on all available systems.

BTW: At the moment only two users confirmed that this is related to Live HTTP Headers. There could be more extensions affected.

Comment 16

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Marking bug as incomplete.   A repro has been identified with the liveHTTPHeaders extension, and disabling it will not show the problem.  

Leaving it to the extension author to identify the problem.  Feel free to reopen once we have more information on a fix for the extension, or if its related to the Mac theme.

Comment 17

[Stefan Scholl]

(In reply to comment #16)
> Marking bug as incomplete.   A repro has been identified with the
> liveHTTPHeaders extension, and disabling it will not show the problem.  
> 
> Leaving it to the extension author to identify the problem.  Feel free to
> reopen once we have more information on a fix for the extension, or if its
> related to the Mac theme.

What information is missing?

Comment 18

[Hasham]

Stefan, he means that until more info is found by the author of the extension regarding this problem (whether this is an issue with the Mac theme or not), this is marked as incomplete. Basically, we want to wait for the authors input once he figures out the problem.

Comment 19

[Phil Pishioneri]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Thanks, Phil! Did you contact the author yet?

I found an existing bug for the extension, to which I added a comment referring back to this bug. The Mozdev bug is <https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=19145>.

Comment 20

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Okay, so the extension does stupid things:

chrome.manifest:
overlay	chrome://browser/content/browser.xul	chrome://livehttpheaders/content/TasksOverlay.xul

...

TasksOverlay.xul:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css"
  href="chrome://livehttpheaders/skin/livehttpheaders.css"?>

...

livehttpheaders.css:
/* Set text color for the whole tree - just to be safe */
treechildren {
  color: #000000;
}

Comment 21

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

> livehttpheaders.css:
> /* Set text color for the whole tree - just to be safe */
> treechildren {
>   color: #000000;
> }

haha.  thanks for looking dao.