683811 - Location bar color is hardwired to text color / 2

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

I love the idea of highlighting the domain as firefox 6 does, but the way it does it makes the rest of the URL very difficult to read. So I went to figure out how to style it with CSS or an extension, so I could read my URLs without disabling this nice feature -- and discovered that I can't, because it's hardwired to the foreground color / 2 in C++ code (nsTextPaintStyle::GetURLSecondaryColor around line 3284 of nsTextFrameThebes.cpp).

Could it put a <span> around that part of the URL text and set the color with CSS? Or, if that isn't possible, fetch a color preference or set it in JS rather than C++ code?

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

It would be quite helpful if there was some way to apply some CSS to this, even if it's via some pseudo-element or so.

Comment 2

[Alfred Kayser]

In my Walnut/Walnut2 themes using foregroundcolor/2 is just ugly and there is no way to specify which color to use for GetURLSecondaryColor. Could a "::" class be used for this, like ::-moz-placeholder?

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.