If you enable tracking of gtk+ themes in mozilla, by using the "Classic" mozilla theme, and select gnome's HighContrastInverse theme, selection highlights are not visible. The end user cannot tell what text is being or has been selected, though the selection activity does work (text can be cut, copied and pasted). (filed against accessibility APIs - is there a better component code for theming issues?)

dup of bug 56314?

IMO not quite the same, but close. reversing would fail to follow theme colors in the general case - the gtk+ theme actually specfies which colors should be used for fg and bg when selecting text.

"there are plenty more where that one came from"... how about bug 201220

GTK nsITheme issue.

There are so many former instances and variants of this bug.. hard to know where to begin. Suggesting dup of Linux bug 50814 - See bug 50814 comment 24

please do not dup this bug. It captures a specific accessibility issue which was ignored in bug 50814. The theming of text selection color is critical to accessibility.

I think Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Colors, 'Use System Color' or 'Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background image specified' will help on this issue.

Did fixing bug 237535 change things here any?

We'd love to fix this - but doesn't meet the beta2 criteria (since it is an existing issue) so we will not block the release for it.

This works for me in the latest nightly Firefox 2 build, although perhaps that doesn't use the "Classic" theme. I'm using the "default" theme in Firefox, and I switched to the "High Contrast Inverse" theme using GNOME's Theme Preferences applet. With the "Use system colors" preference checked and the "Allow pages to use their own colors" preference unchecked, text is white on a dark blue background. When I select text, the selection appears as dark blue/black on a light pink background. If I check "Allow pages to use their own colors", a typical page appears with black text on a white background. When I select text, the selection appears as light pink text on a dark blue background. In both cases, selections are visible and usable. WORKSFORME, or is this really Classic-specific?

*** Bug 338464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 357071 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Does this bug occur in a recent trunk build? http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

I can reproduce Bug 338464 – Typeaheadfind "highlight all" and Bug 357071 – for selected item in mouse over combobox. These bugs have been marked as duplicate of this bug. I can't reproduce for selecting text in html page.

also text in html button is not readable when mouse over it, with using high contrast inverse theme. XUL button is good.

What's the current status on this? If ther are still lingering issues, we should try to resolve them for FF3. I'm a bit confused re what these issues are, though.