Appearance issues and other stuff with Iceweasel 24 (in debian 7.1 with Mate)
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Appearance issues and other stuff with Iceweasel 24 (in debian 7.1 with Mate)
System: Debian 7.1 (default kernel), Iceweasel 24, Mate DE
Previously I was running Ubuntu 10.04 (way longer than I should have) and never had any issues with appearance settings like this.
I just have a couple appearance related issues that I've not come across before:
A) On most sites, except the LQ forums for some reason, the text input boxes are white with white text. I haven't been able to find any way to fix this. I've tried ticking the "use system settings" and unticking "allow sites to choose their own colors" and that doesn't fix the input box issue.
B)Spell check seems to be selective. For example, it doesn't work at all on reddit.
Your first issue sounds like a theme issue. For as long as I can remember Iceweasel/Firefox didn't play all that well with GTK themes, the most common problem s what you describe. Check the theme's web page and see if they list a fix there. I remember some used to list fixes for GTK+ 2.x.
This is a report from 2011, but this bug has been around long before, and AFAIK still exists (I suffer the same with jessie on my laptop using a dark theme).
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