Bug 582314 – www-client/firefox-46.0: invisible checkboxes

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Alex Efros 2016-05-06 22:57:32 UTC]

After upgrade from www-client/firefox-45.0.1 to 46.0 about a week ago I've noticed border of checkboxes on many sites became invisible. Checkboxes itself works ok - if you're lucky enough to know where they should be and click there you'll see it check mark, still without box border. This also happens on websites which doesn't have any styles for checkboxes and even if I disable CSS on these websites - so that's not a website issue. Example websites are:
  https://play.golang.org/
    there is a checkbox on top of page on "Imports" button
  https://gist.github.com/powerman/532fbae990992e2fe75ee96525c8792f
    example gist with markdown todo list and a couple of checkboxes

I've tried to:
- change QT theme
- change GTK theme
- start firefox in safe mode
- try firefox-bin-46.0
- try firefox-45.1.0 (sadly but there is no firefox-45.0.1 in portage anymore - latest version which works ok for me)

Nothing helps.

Probably this issue has nothing with Gentoo, but it's very annoying and I'll be glad to hear any other ideas how to debug/fix/workaround it.



Portage 2.2.26 (python 3.4.3-final-0, hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.8-hardened-r1 x86_64)
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Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 06 May 2016 20:15:01 +0000
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[Comment 1 Alex Efros 2016-05-06 23:12:32 UTC]

I should add, radio buttons have same issue - only internal dot is shown, without circle around it. I've just tried to run firefox without ~/.mozilla/ at all, and noticed this issue with radio buttons in "import profile" dialog shown on first run (so it's 100% unrelated to website styles/CSS or my own settings), and then confirmed it at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp.

Not sure is this important, but I'm using fluxbox, so maybe some updates related to recent KDE libs upgrade wasn't completely applied or there is some other general configuration issue related to GTK or QT on my system. Or not, because I see checkboxes in Pidgin and Okular menus/dialogs, so probably with GTK and QT everything is fine.

[Comment 2 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2016-05-06 23:43:01 UTC]

try changing gtk2 and gtk3 theme to something *not* Breeze (or Breeze-Dark) then rebooting.

[Comment 3 Alex Efros 2016-05-06 23:54:13 UTC]

(In reply to Alex Xu (Hello71) from comment #2)
> try changing gtk2 and gtk3 theme to something *not* Breeze (or Breeze-Dark)
> then rebooting.

I have never used Breeze, I use Clearlooks. But I've tried to "preview" all of them some time (long time, about a year) ago. Anyway, I don't have Breeze even in themes list, so it probably not installed at all.

I've just re-emerged firefox with USE=force-gtk2 - and this helps, now everything looks like before (there were several other issues which looks like bad design - white background in popup menu, no free space between elements and borders of "save as" dialog window, etc. - all these things are now fixed too).

So, is there any way to fix/reset my gtk3 settings, or I should just use gtk2 for firefox?

[Comment 4 Franz Trischberger 2016-05-08 05:27:49 UTC]

I can confirm this issue. Happens since I first built firefox with gtk3. I tried all the themes available (Adwaita, Default, Emacs, HighContrast, Raleigh), all are affected.
There are other issues like labels in menus/dialogs/... rendered in too light colour and scrollbar handles are invisible (and some more). This might be related to the changes gtk+-3.20 introduced to the theme engine.
@Alex Efros: which gtk3-version do you have installed?

[Comment 5 Alex Efros 2016-05-08 06:01:10 UTC]

(In reply to Franz Fellner from comment #4)
> @Alex Efros: which gtk3-version do you have installed?

x11-libs/gtk+-3.18.7

[Comment 6 Alex Efros 2016-06-06 21:20:55 UTC]

I've just re-installed www-client/firefox-46.0 (automatically while emerge -uDNav world). While version of ebuild is exactly same, there are some changes: it doesn't have USE force-gtk2 and it doesn't have issue mentioned in this bug report when built with (default) gtk3 (USE gtk2 is disabled).

[Comment 7 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2016-06-30 23:49:07 UTC]

According to comment #6 the bug is no longer reproducible after the reporter re-emerged www-client/firefox.

I am changing RESOLVED status from NEEDINFO to OBSOLETE to get this bug out of the "NEEDINFO" list which helps us to track bugs where user submitted the requested information but forgotten to re-open the bug.