Comment 64 for bug 220263

I'm having this issue as well, from the description of 't all, sounds like a perfect acessment of the problem is under way (even if a final solution isn't at hand yet). My system theme is respected for the dropdown chrome, but not for the dropdown text, resulting in dark on dark dropdown boxes.

A simple example image is loaded downstream in launchpad, viewable here:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20391950/darkDropdownsHaveDarkText.png

With the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/220263