Bug#490769: iceweasel: input field boxes vanish randomly

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:56:20PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:05:43PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > The vanishing boxes - happens with metacity, compiz and sawfish.
> > > Haven't tried any others.
> > 
> > Could you describe the issue again, so that I get a better grasp of it ?
> 
> Here's the reproducible example - the front page of wikipedia.  Note
> that in the first image, before my mouse has hovered over the input
> box, the box has an "edge", whereas after my mouse has hovered over
> it (in fact, on this occasion I even clicked in the box, but this is
> not necessary), the edge has disappeared.
> 
> The box is still visible in this case, as it is a white box on a
> non-white background, but on other sites where the box is
> white-on-white, this is far more problematic.

Isn't that just a gtk theme (both color and style) issue ?

Mike