Firefox 47 ignores Global Dark Theme option being enabled

[Wise Melon]

I had Firefox 46.0.1 installed previously which worked fine and when having the Global Dark Theme enabled was, well, dark, as I like it. However after upgrading to Firefox 47 I have found that Firefox is all completely white, it looks as it would if the Global Dark Theme option in the gnome-tweak-tool were disabled, which it is not, and it is the only application behaving as such. I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20. I have attached a screenshot of what it looks like (though I have blacked out some private stuff).

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Hi, this was an intentional change to fix (or at least work around) bug 1586761, for instance.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1216658

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount)]

For that issue, couldn't they just detect the background colour for text boxes and then adjust accordingly, or override them all and make them have a black background and white text?

[msdin (msdin)]

Can this fix for the black on black text,etc.:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Unreadable_input_fields_with_dark_GTK.2B_themes

Not somehow be incorporated? It was working fine for me.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

This bug is stated as Fixed upstreams in Firefox, but it still applies on Ubuntu even in Firefox 52.

Any status update on this?

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Firefox 55 beta supports two new independent about:config settings, widget.chrome.allow-gtk-dark-theme and widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158076). The former gets you a dark-themed UI without messing up web page content.

Official PPA for Firefox beta, if you don’t want to wait: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug showing "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2017-04-23
Milestone - Firefox 55
Marking as "Fix Released" to close