Bug 538678

Summary:	Default Gnome theme makes URL-bar drop-down in firefox nearly unreadable
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Greg Riedesel <greg>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Milestone 7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Firefox with Sonar theme Seamonkey with the Sonar theme Opera with the sonar theme

Description Greg Riedesel 2009-09-11 22:00:47 UTC

The default out-of-the-box Gnome theme (Sonar) makes the drop-down bar in Firefox very unreadable. The background is a dark charcoal gray and the links are classic HTML-underlined-blue. The combination is very unreadable (the blue text smears across the dark background for me forcing me to squint to read it). The white page titles are clearly readable, though.

Changing the theme to Clearlooks makes a world of difference. 

It seems that the "menu bar" color is the color-scheme used for the drop-down list in Firefox.

Comment 1 Greg Riedesel 2009-09-11 22:01:49 UTC

Created attachment 317960 [details]
Firefox with Sonar theme

Note the link/background contrast issues.

Comment 2 Greg Riedesel 2009-09-11 22:03:24 UTC

Created attachment 317961 [details]
Seamonkey with the Sonar theme

No blue URLs here. Enough contrast for readability.

Comment 3 Greg Riedesel 2009-09-11 22:04:45 UTC

Created attachment 317962 [details]
Opera with the sonar theme

Opera decided to use the 'text-entry-box' theme for its drop-down list, the most readable of the lot.

Comment 4 Greg Riedesel 2009-09-11 22:25:39 UTC

Duplicate of Bug 503351. The bug didn't come up on my initial searches.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 503351 ***