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Firefox has several experience-breaking bugs for me. One where on websites that don't explicitly set their form background to white, which is the default on mo

Firefox has several experience-breaking bugs for me. One where on websites that don't explicitly set their form background to white, which is the default on most browsers, Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme, even when the theme is dark. Black text on black background. This bug had been known about for almost 20 years and is marked "won't fix" because the devs still assert that universal user theming of websites is just around the corner. The bug manifests on mozilla.com Another is that hard refresh sometimes flat out doesn't work. I'm a developer who occasionally makes changes to frontend code, and sometimes Firefox just decided that it's just going to cache everything and ignore what I tell it to do. Ctrl-refresh, shift-refresh, clear cache, all do nothing, I have to killall firefox and restart the browser to get my updated web page to show.

s9w 7y ago
Damn that's why some sites are just black on black on FF. That seems actually insane to not fix
frenchy 7y ago
> Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme I don't think that's not the default. Are you sure you didn't change that? (It's configured under "Colors > Use system colours")
- guuhv 7y ago
  It's the default on Linux, "use system colours" is on by default, and the default background colour for widgets on Linux is usually not white.
  - deadbunny 7y ago
    You mean the default in whatever flavour of linux you're using. It's not enabled by default on all distros.
    - hannasanarion 7y ago
      It's the default in Firefox for Linux. It's a browser setting, not an OS setting. And in order to turn it off you have to do really obscure stuff in the Firefox launch options, it's funky and makes no sense.
f1refly 7y ago
The first one is easy, see the second answer in this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/8336/how-can-one-make-firefox-ignore-my-gtk-theme-entirely https://askubuntu.com/questions/8336/how-can-one-make-firefo...
- swish_bob 7y ago
  That's ... horrible. Also pretty obscure. That really shouldn't be necessary.
mrguyorama 7y ago
I am unable to reproduce either of your bugs on mac. I've never had firefox ignore a "force" reload in over 10 years of using the browser, and despite having the "dark" theme running, going to mozilla.com shows a white background just fine. I am running nightly
- hannasanarion 7y ago
  Yeah, because it only looks for GTK themes, not whatever theming engine windows and mac desktops have, which is further evidence of the absurdity of their wontfix explanation.

s9w 7y ago

Damn that's why some sites are just black on black on FF. That seems actually insane to not fix

frenchy 7y ago

> Firefox paints them the color of the user's desktop theme I don't think that's not the default. Are you sure you didn't change that? (It's configured under "Colors > Use system colours")

guuhv 7y ago
It's the default on Linux, "use system colours" is on by default, and the default background colour for widgets on Linux is usually not white.
- deadbunny 7y ago
  You mean the default in whatever flavour of linux you're using. It's not enabled by default on all distros.
  - hannasanarion 7y ago
    It's the default in Firefox for Linux. It's a browser setting, not an OS setting. And in order to turn it off you have to do really obscure stuff in the Firefox launch options, it's funky and makes no sense.

f1refly 7y ago

The first one is easy, see the second answer in this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/8336/how-can-one-make-firefox-ignore-my-gtk-theme-entirely https://askubuntu.com/questions/8336/how-can-one-make-firefo...

swish_bob 7y ago
That's ... horrible. Also pretty obscure. That really shouldn't be necessary.

mrguyorama 7y ago

I am unable to reproduce either of your bugs on mac. I've never had firefox ignore a "force" reload in over 10 years of using the browser, and despite having the "dark" theme running, going to mozilla.com shows a white background just fine. I am running nightly

hannasanarion 7y ago
Yeah, because it only looks for GTK themes, not whatever theming engine windows and mac desktops have, which is further evidence of the absurdity of their wontfix explanation.