On 12/27/23, Mike McClain <mike.junk...@att.net> wrote: > Mr. Martinez, > I tried every thing I could think of with little success: > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade > apt update && apt -y full-upgrade > apt-get reinstall firefox > None of these restores firefox's black menus
Just out of curiosity, did you reboot at any point early on? That was the second thing I tried because simply logging out and then back in didn't correct this... when something very similar happened to me about 4 days ago...... > Mr. Walton, > I'm quite sure that FF > updated itself without asking. When it restarted the top three lines, > menu, tabs and address plus associated buttons were black with grey > text and bacically unreadable/unusable. Faced with that I'd suggest > you might get a bit dramatic too. I saw you say this before, and it just flew right past my brain. I think it was the word, "black," that threw me. My toolbars completely vanished for everything. There was nothing there to pick its own new theme color. :) The title bars stayed but were 100% useless. I couldn't click that "X"to close and "_" to minimize and arrow for window rollup (positioned on top right for my LXQt windows). I can't remember if "CTRL+Q" and that range of keyboard shortcuts worked or not. I surely tried them (that beauty of more than one way to do tasks), but I don't remember what happened. Logging out as my normal user and then logging back in as same user didn't fix anything visually so I rebooted. The desktop environment immediately returned to normal and has stayed that way so I flat out forgot this happened. As I'm proofreading this before sending, I can't remember how I rebooted. I can't remember if I was able to drop the main Application Menu down, or if I had to hit this laptop's physical hardware button because the menu had stopped working (too). I do remember that I somehow was able to access two windows, but once I got the second one on the desktop, the first one, my xfce4-terminal, would no longer respond to the cursor touching it to bring it back to the surface. That's telling me I likely tried to open another terminal instance but was not able to do so due to the primary panel likely suddenly becoming unworkable (at top for me). > The good news is that kerry_s on the Raspberry Pi forum showed me > where to change the screen theme. > >From the taskbar popup menu/Preferences/Appearance Settings/Defaults > choose: For medium screens: Set Defaults > kerry_s also said there was a theme selector there that I didn't see. > He's under wayland while I'm running X11 and that caused some confusion. > > I can't imagine why FF would choose to change desktop theme with their > update but that theme change also made LibreOffice, Draw, Calc and > Writer unusable. I hope you don't have this problem but at least if > you do get stung you may remember the fix. I really don't think Firefox is changing our themes on purpose. There would be a worldwide revolt if any package ever tried that. I believe this is a weird glitch that needs fixed QUICKLY because the changes we both experienced are unacceptable. Now that there is a party of two of us affected, I do hope that it's an accidental coding error and not something deliberately malicious. By the way, my instance has only occurred once so far. That was about four days ago. My Firefox was massively overloaded and crashed. Low memory due to that session's combined activity likely played a part. New sessions start out at 16GB RAM and 9 or 10GB swap. The "theme looking" change across entire Debian session (all programs) "snapped" in my face, like maybe there was nanosecond long visual light(?) flash or something. You're welcome (aka begged) to be the one to bug report this straight to Firefox/Mozilla. If you do report it, PLEASE, yes, do feel free to include my instance with your report, maybe by both copying this thread's text of what my machine experienced compared to yours and by also pointing to this Debian thread via e.g. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/. If they haven't already had other reports, maybe the similarities and differences in what triggered that system wide fail and how it looked visually for just the two of us will still help somehow. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with Happy New Year's noise makers *
