503667 - Address bar colors

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Slava Durdaliev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Remi/fc10 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090701 Remi/fc10 Firefox/3.5

I have updated to 3.5, and the autosuggestions color in the address bar became some kind of a bluish (I mean this color is like no, no, NO). There has to be a way to revert the color other than downgrading versions. I have tried to guess in the about:config, but didn't find anything related.

What it could do to distinguish between the titles and the addresses is to be making the titles gray and the addresses black (or vice versa). Anyway, the font sizes are already different enough to differentiate and not get lost there.

Thank you.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put the cursor in the address bar;
2. Start typing;
3. See the auto suggestions from history/bookmarks.
Actual Results:  
BLUE.

Expected Results:  
Something other than the 4-bit palette.

Comment 1

[Slava Durdaliev]

Attachment: The bright color

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This didn't change between 3.0 and 3.5...

Comment 3

[Slava Durdaliev]

Let it use system colors (like active and inactive text), please.

Comment 4

[Slava Durdaliev]

I wonder what would be the reason. If nothing changed about address bar from 3.0.11 to 3.5 and if what I observe here is caused by a change done by some package provider that please excuse me. It looked to me like usability change in 3.5.

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Let it use system colors (like active and inactive text), please.

We do use the "link-color" system color. If you don't like the shade of blue, please report this to the author of your gtk theme.

Comment 6

[Slava Durdaliev]

I'm sorry, but the link color is different. And I am not talking about the color of the links, I'm talking about address bar and the its autocomplete feature. Please see the screenshot.

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I'm sorry, but the link color is different.

Where is it different?

Comment 8

[Slava Durdaliev]

Attachment: Address bar against the set link color

Comment 9

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The "link-color" system color I was referring to is not used in the content area. You need to compare with other gtk apps.

Comment 10

[Slava Durdaliev]

It's a bad idea to get color from there because there is no easy way to change it other than editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

In this case I had to manually add the following:

#--------------------------------------------------------
style "default-style"
{
GtkWidget::link-color = "#333399"
GtkHTML::alink_color = "#333399"
GtkHTML::link_color = "#333399"
GnomeHref::link_color = "#333399"
GtkIMHtml::hyperlink-color = "#333399"
}
class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"
#---------------------------------------------------------

I don't consider this a good way to get things done. In addition, the address I type in the address bar is black and not the golor from gtk theme, so why breaking this analogy for the auto-suggestions, I can only wonder.

PS. 3.0.11 does NOT get this value from the system settings on my machine, and the suggestions are gray.

Please provide means to control it (and I see you do provide means to control the colors in the content area).

Comment 11

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

> PS. 3.0.11 does NOT get this value from the system settings on my machine, and
> the suggestions are gray.

Firefox 3 didn't use the link color because it couldn't access it. The gray was a system color too, but people found it hard to read.

> Please provide means to control it (and I see you do provide means to control
> the colors in the content area).

Again, as we use a system color, you need to report this to the gtk theme author, or to gnome folks if you think the way you can influence system colors is insufficient.