Bug 1218683 - Dark Theme makes Websites unreadable
Summary: Dark Theme makes Websites unreadable
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedora-gnome-theme
Version: 24
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-05 14:44 UTC by Johannes Raggam
Modified: 2017-08-08 11:57 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 11:57:34 UTC
Type: Bug
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Screenshot of Issue (151.75 KB, image/png)
2016-02-11 19:38 UTC, rmarshall
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Description Johannes Raggam 2015-05-05 14:44:07 UTC
Description of problem:
Using the Global Dark Theme, Firefox is themed dark too! Which is fine. But Websites without a specified text color on white background are unreadable, because the text color is too bright. Formfields have a dark background.

Probably the Global Dark Theme shouldn't affect the Browser's default styles at all.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 22 Beta


How reproducible:
- Select Dark Theme
- Visit random Websites, Look at Form Fields,

Comment 1 Johannes Raggam 2015-05-07 09:25:37 UTC
At least partly sovable by doing the following:
Edit / Preferences / Content / Colors, disable "Use system colors"
Or set "browser.display.use_system_colors" to false in "about:config"

Comment 2 rmarshall 2016-02-11 19:38:26 UTC
Created attachment 1123287 [details]
Screenshot of Issue

This is still an issue in latest Fedora when using Gnome Dark.

There are words (Cat Goes Meow) in various fields and the buttons are also overly dark.

Screenshot attached.

Comment 3 rmarshall 2016-02-11 19:54:42 UTC
The screenshot that I just attached has the best settings applied that I could find for changing the Font/Color preferences in Firefox as described in various articles found while searching the web for a fix.

It still leaves some sites completely unusable such as Amtrak.com. On that site all text in form fields is invisible until highlighted with the mouse.

Comment 4 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:30:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 5 Johannes Raggam 2017-06-28 08:47:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1353008 ***

Comment 6 Johannes Raggam 2017-06-28 08:48:44 UTC
Sorry, accidentally marked as duplicate. Reopening.

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