User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Galeon/1.3.18 In firefox-1.0-6 and mozilla-1.7.5-1: Pages not specifying a background color should have the color in browser.display.background_color (white). With the new Firefox and Mozilla packages they get a color from my GTK theme instead. Examples: about:blank or dir indexes. Maybe the new GTK theme integration patch, because it does not appear in Mozilla upstream? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit a page without a background color. 2. Notice that it's not white (possibly some gray as in 90s Netscape)
NOTABUG. This is intentional. To restore the previous behavior, just go to Edit>Preferences>General>Fonts and Colors and uncheck "Use system colors"
Just curious, but why did the behavior of this option change? Does it make sense to use this color for an area displaying text? Thanks.
There are many pages explictly setting the background color with comments like "Workaround for broken IE 3/4". I think this is a bug, please reopen.
Explicitly setting the background will still work. This is ONLY for pages which do not set any color. Can you please show me a page where you disagree with the behavior?
For example - www.yahoo.com (I was surprised too). I'll attach a screenshot. There I selected red (the worst I could think of) background for all pages that don't specify background colour. The option 'Use system colours' does the same thing if I change the default system background colour.
Created attachment 109135 [details] yahoo does not specify background colour
Changing resolution to RESOLVED UPSTREAM, and resummarizing to better reflect the problem. The pref is fine, but the color that mozilla/firefox requests from GTK is wrong. See upstream https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282141
*** Bug 146907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***