“Overriding colors in Firefox 2.0.0.1 preferences causes problems in many web pages”

[Jarno Suni]

Binary package hint: firefox

There are severe usability problems when you override colors in Firefox preferences:

- Many pulldown menus, e.g. in page http://www.milonic.com/menusample1.php, become transparent making the menus hard to read, if the background color has been overridden.

- Many webpages have either bacground color or text color - but not both - specified, so if you check "Allow pages to choose their own colors instead of my selectioins above", the combination of text color and background color becomes very hard to read. If one, but not both, of the colors are chosen by the website, both should be overridden, I think.

Anyway, IMO there shoud be a shortcut key or something to enable quick switching between overridden colors and colors chosen by web page.

[Alex Latchford (alex.latchford)]

Hello Jarno,

Thank you for the bug report, I can confirm that this is an issue, I am going to send it upstream now.

Thanks again, Alex.

[Alex Latchford (alex.latchford)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

Howdy,

I am reporting a bug on behalf of Jarno Suni,
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/80600

He has found a bug within the Javascript libraries I am assuming that stops user defined colours from being set on floating windows.

Thanks, Alex.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to user defined colours. (edit -> prefs -> content -> colours -> *uncheck* "Allow pages to use own colours")
2. Go to a site using a javascript overlay window. (http://www.yawnster.com/photos (click on a photo on the right menu, this is my own site.), http://www.milonic.com/menusample1.php (hover over the menus to reveal the links)).
3. It's background colour and/or text colour is transparent.
Actual Results:
Transparent background and/or text

Expected Results:
Text and background that follow set colours.

[Deangelo (deangelo)]

Update: Since this problem is not a crash issue with Firefox 2.0.0.1 this problem will not be fixed IN 2.0.0.1. I do not see the reported problem with Firefox 2.0.0.2pre, please download this build. Closing as WORKSFORME.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please let me know if this is fixed as soon as 2.0.0.2 is out ... otherwise let me know, so I can reopen the bug report upstream.

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

The bug continues to exist in 2.0.0.2.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Does this problem still exist in latest firefox version 2.0.0.5?

[Jarno Suni (jarnos)]

No, but I don't intent to use custom colors anymore.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Closing out this old bug that says it was fixed with an update.