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[Keith Owens <kaos-ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One possible cause is a conflict between the KDE theme and GTK. I had
the same problem because ~/.kde/env contained a file gtk2-engines-
qtcurve.rc.sh with

export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4

Commenting out the export, logging out and in again fixed the dark grey
on black problem for alternate text.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909171

Title:
  firefox 9 statusbar url popup is unusable with dark grey text on black
  background

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
    Binary package hint: firefox

  Start Oneiric with the default Unity theme.

  Start firefox 9.0.1 with the default persona, and theme. If you have
  any custom settings for your Ubuntu desktop, don't bother trying to
  reproduce this bug. Just start with a fresh Ubuntu Oneiric install.

  Open any webpage that contains links.

  Hit the Tab key slowly multiple times to make a small url popup appear
  near the south-east corner of the browser window, showing the contents
  of the currently highlighted url.

  The text in the url popup is dark grey on a black background. Who on earth chose that scheme? It's completely illegible without using a microscope and an image contrast enhancement tool.
  This does not meet even minimum usability and accessibility requirements.

  It's hard to believe this is not from the bad old days of firefox version 1. Shouldn't firefox ui designers be on tigher leashes by now?
  Just one more step on the road to putting people off firefox and ubuntu.

  Seriously, can this be fixed asap please?

     ProblemType: Bug
     DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.11
     Package: firefox_9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1_amd64
     ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15-generic 3.0.0
     Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
     NonfreeKernelModules:
     Architecture: amd64
     Date: Tue Dec 27 09:16:28 2011
     InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.11 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64
     (20111218.1)
     ProcEnviron:
      LANG=en_US.utf8
      SHELL=/bin/bash
     SourcePackage: firefox

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