591669 - Firefox Panorama/Tab Candy background color not available in userChrome.css [Solution inside]

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect, P4)

Description

[Emmanuel Lepage Vallee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100828 Firefox/4.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100828 Firefox/4.0b5pre

It is not possible to change the Panorama background color using CSS. The full path is
#tab-view #content #bg
It seem that this element use JavaScript to set the color. It should use CSS just like any other part of the browser. Some work around are available:
-Deleting the #bg node with the DOM editor
-Creating an extension to do so
-Forcing display: none !important; on #tab-view #content #bg and using #tab-view #content as background;

The real solution would be to make sure the element use standard web way of setting the color, css if possible. Doing it like it currently do brake the userChrome and theme support for it. It should be straightforward to fix.

screenshot of the affected element http://yfrog.com/mwblender85p

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to set a background color using CSS
2. Open Panorama
3. It failed, even if the syntax is fine
Actual Results:  
The color is still the default one

Expected Results:  
The color is the one set by the user

Comment 1

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Emmanuel, I'm not sure what exactly the issue is. The #bg element's styling is using themeable CSS in the *stripe theme directories.

Comment 2

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

I'm with Michael, I believe you can change the color.