Bug 2353953 - background colour grey instead of white
Summary: background colour grey instead of white
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 40
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-03-20 20:54 UTC by Jonathan S
Modified: 2025-03-25 17:30 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firefox-136.0.3-1.fc43
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Last Closed: 2025-03-25 17:30:56 UTC
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Description Jonathan S 2025-03-20 20:54:27 UTC
Relates to firefox-136.0.2.
See https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-642b5afe1a for info.
I can confirm that it is the default change from browser.display.use_system_colors from false to true that causes the issue.
Firefox 137.0b8 on Fedora (current beta installed from the Firefox site) does not show these artefacts - the browser.display.use_system_colors is still false here.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andre Robatino 2025-03-20 23:21:38 UTC
See my comment in https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f3e353ce04 (corresponding update for F41). I confirmed that the default setting for browser.display.use_system_colors changed from false to true, but I'm not seeing the artifacts described. So it could be something F40-specific or something specific to the reporter's setup.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2025-03-21 11:18:37 UTC
Can you please try:

1) upstream binaries with your recent profile:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Firefox_problems#Testing_Mozilla_binaries

2) Fedora Firefox with a new profile:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Firefox_problems#Test_Firefox_with_a_new_profile

Thanks.

Comment 3 Jonathan S 2025-03-21 12:27:23 UTC
1) Have 137.0b8 on Fedora (current beta installed from the Mozilla site). It has default false for browser.display.use_system_colors. If I change that to true, I get the same symptoms again.

2) New profile for 136.0.2 - exactly the same issue.

Note that I also have a Fedora 41 machine and I see exactly the same problem with 136.0.2.

I had assumed that this might be related to the colours of the theme. But I've tried fiddling with the theme elements without success. I use Cinnamon on all my machines, though one also has Gnome, which shows the same symptoms. 

In any case, as far as I can see, there's nothing unusual about my theme.

It's also notable that the current beta from the Mozilla site still has that relevant default false. So why has the Fedora 136.0.2 rpm changed that default?

Thanks for looking into this.

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2025-03-24 10:01:55 UTC
Okay, let's use the Mozilla default.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2025-03-24 18:59:17 UTC
FEDORA-2025-8141e309e9 (firefox-136.0.2-2.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-8141e309e9

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2025-03-25 15:25:18 UTC
FEDORA-2025-fb643ab7e9 (firefox-136.0.3-1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-fb643ab7e9

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2025-03-25 17:30:56 UTC
FEDORA-2025-fb643ab7e9 (firefox-136.0.3-1.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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