Bug 143423 – Default background color on some pages is grey instead of white (because of use system colors pref)

Bug 143423 - Default background color on some pages is grey instead of white (because of use system colors pref)

Summary:	Default background color on some pages is grey instead of white (because of u...

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	firefox (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Christopher Aillon
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Duplicates:	146907 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2004-12-20 12:40 EST by Ben
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-12-20 14:21:37 EST
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yahoo does not specify background colour (80.37 KB, image/png) 2004-12-27 07:25 EST, Doncho N. Gunchev	no flags	Details
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation	282141	None	None	None	Never

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Description Ben 2004-12-20 12:40:40 EST

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)

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2004-12-20 14:21:37 EST

NOTABUG.  This is intentional.  To restore the previous behavior, just
go to Edit>Preferences>General>Fonts and Colors and uncheck "Use
system colors"

Comment 2 Ben 2004-12-20 15:45:37 EST

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.

Comment 3 Doncho N. Gunchev 2004-12-23 05:56:16 EST

    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.

Comment 4 Christopher Aillon 2004-12-23 08:29:04 EST

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?

Comment 5 Doncho N. Gunchev 2004-12-27 07:22:39 EST

    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.

Comment 6 Doncho N. Gunchev 2004-12-27 07:25:39 EST

Created attachment 109135 [details]
yahoo does not specify background colour

Comment 7 Christopher Aillon 2005-02-13 15:06:00 EST

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

Comment 8 Christopher Aillon 2005-02-13 15:08:04 EST

*** Bug 146907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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