78394 - Mozilla ignores color preferences

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77828

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Travis Ogdon]

I've set Mozilla to use alternate standard colors for links, text, and page
backgrounds. These had been working through the 20010426 linux build. 

Since then all pages that don't explicitly declare colors through either style
sheets or body tags have had grey backgrounds, black text, blue unfollowed
links, and purple followed links (pages that declare colors are working fine). 

Blowing away my preferences by deleting the .mozilla directory didn't seem to
help. I'm seeing this up through todays build.

I figured that someone would have reported this bug by now (I absolutely hate
purple followed links, and I want to think that others do too...), but searching
turned up nothing. I may just be missing it, but if so the summary for that bug
needs the word color(s) in it.

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Confirming on 2001043004 Win2k, setting OS to All.

Comment 2

[Dimitrios]

Just remembered bug 69436 says about the same thing regarding to mail/news (but
system colors were proposed as a solution). The only thing changed since then is
that hardcoded white turned to hardcoded gray. Is this a general issue affecting
both browser and Mail/News?

Comment 3

[Travis Ogdon]

> Is this a general issue affecting both browser and Mail/News?

Yes. I'm seeing it in mail too (although I don't actually use Mozilla for mail).
Just opening up a message in composer used to follow my prefs, now it's set at
the old defaults. 

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77828 ***

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.