Re: Firefox drop-down menus problem

[Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>]

> Subject: Firefox drop-down menus problem

> Running Debian stable, with Foxfire 1.04.  In Firefox, there is a
> problem with the drop-down menus. Unhighlighted items show as black text
> against a grey background (as expected). But items highlighted by moving
> the mouse cursor over them show as white text on white background (thus
> unreadable)! Yet clicking the menu items works as normal. 

> This does not seem to happen for any other program, and does not occur
> in Icewseasel (Etch).  Has anyone else experienced this?  If so, is
> there a solution? 

This happened to me as well.  Changing the default theme of Debian (called "Simple", I think, when running Gnome as the desktop environment) to anything else, fixes it.  Just open the desktop theme preferences.  

Mark