I normally have my background color set to white and my foreground set to black. After I view any page which contains Javascript code, on any page which doesn't specify a background, Mozilla forgets my default background color, and uses the standard gray backgound instead. Two URLs which show the problem (view in order): <http://www.egroups.com/list/freeqt/> <http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1998-Oct/> Selecting "View Source" on the mis-displayed page, closing the source window, and reloading the mis-displayed page makes it (and all subsequently visited pages) display correctly. This bug has been present in Navigator/Communicator since at least version 3. This bug report is relative to the Mozilla source as pulled down from CVS on 1998-10-09, built as MOZ_MEDIUM. This is Mozilla for SunOS 5.6, displaying remotely on an 8-bit XFree86 3.3.2 S3 server running on FreeBSD 2.2.7. (I can test other display setups as well. It *might* only be a problem with 8-bit displays.) In Navigator/Communicator, Java applets cause the same problem, but obviously this can't happen in Mozilla currently.

Reassign to radha@netscape.com

Actually this is the same as bug 282, and the patch there fixes this (once convinced to apply to the current tree). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282 ***

Marking Verified/Duplicate.