611335 - Dark text on dark background

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[alex mateescu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7

I use a dark grey theme in Kubuntu (dark backgrounds, light text). The background of both the location bar and the search bar are both dark. But the text that appears when hovering a link is always black (therefore almost impossible to read). The same for the name of the search engine, if I don't fill anything in. E.g. "Google" is shown in black on dark grey.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set a dark background for location and search bar.
2. Check the _default_ text in the search bar.
3. Navigate to any page and hover a link. Check the text that appears in the location bar.
Actual Results:  
The text is black in both instances.

Expected Results:  
The text should be light grey, obeying the theme in KDE.

Comment 1

[alex mateescu]

Attachment: Screenshot exhibiting the problem

Comment 2

[spoilerhead]

Same for me on latest daily build, Ubuntu 10.10 x64, Gnome and a dark theme

Expected Results:
Firefox should always use the system theme.

This bug was present in 3.6, too but there it only affected the Search Field, so it was no show stopper, but now i can't even see where a link is pointing to.

Comment 3

[spoilerhead]

Attachment: Screenshot, Gnome and a dark theme.

Comment 4

[spoilerhead]

Affects the search field in about:addons, too, 
also links in the location bar seem to be hardcoded to blue, gives very bad contrast on a dark theme, too

Comment 5

[spoilerhead]

Attachment: ugly location bar with dark themes

Comment 6

[Teet Talviste]

Using: Iceweasel 4.0b9
System theme: oxygen-gtk
Colorscheme: light colors on black

Preferences unreadable. Text unreadable in many places. See attachment for screenshot. Seems that FF only honors some system colors.

Comment 7

[Teet Talviste]

Attachment: Picture illustrating unreadable text in preferences

Comment 8

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Please report this to the OS theme author. We're using colors as provided by the GTK engine.