Issue with font colour

[Kamikazefrog]

To start with, I am unsure that this is an issue with the site as such, because I've noticed the problem occur on other sites too for certain text areas, but I've been unable to locate the issue and fix it on my end, so hopefully someone can help me out. I think the problem lies in the Firefox font settings somewhere, but I can't seem to locate what causes it.

The problem occurs when I'm using Firefox and suddenly started while I was reading a thread yesterday. Without clicking anything as I was just scrolling down the page, suddenly all raw post text changed to a solid black font colour. Needless to say, this means any dark theme is unusable. And it doesn't matter which theme I use, all raw text when reading posts is this same solid black colour.

However, and this is what I find odd, the text inside quotes retains the theme colours, and also the text when I am writing a post retains the theme colours. But when I post it, the colours change to said solid black.

So just as an example:

Text in quotes like this uses the site's theme colours properly,

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whereas raw text like this is a solid black font colour. And now that I am comparing it directly in the preview, it also seems the font is different too, so it seems something in Firefox is overriding certain text styles, but not all of them.

Can anyone help?

Spoiler: screenshot of how things look look from my end

 

[Biigoh]

To start with, I am unsure that this is an issue with the site as such, because I've noticed the problem occur on other sites too for certain text areas, but I've been unable to locate the issue and fix it on my end, so hopefully someone can help me out. I think the problem lies in the Firefox font settings somewhere, but I can't seem to locate what causes it.

The problem occurs when I'm using Firefox and suddenly started while I was reading a thread yesterday. Without clicking anything as I was just scrolling down the page, suddenly all raw post text changed to a solid black font colour. Needless to say, this means any dark theme is unusable. And it doesn't matter which theme I use, all raw text when reading posts is this same solid black colour.

However, and this is what I find odd, the text inside quotes retains the theme colours, and also the text when I am writing a post retains the theme colours. But when I post it, the colours change to said solid black.

So just as an example:

whereas raw text like this is a solid black font colour. And now that I am comparing it directly in the preview, it also seems the font is different too, so it seems something in Firefox is overriding certain text styles, but not all of them.

Can anyone help?

Spoiler: screenshot of how things look look from my end

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That's usually caused by someone manually/accidentally setting the text to black in color for some reason.

 

[Kamikazefrog]

That's usually caused by someone manually/accidentally setting the text to black in color for some reason.

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So this setting? I tried setting it to bright pink, but the text remains the stubborn black

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[Biigoh]

So this setting? I tried setting it to bright pink, but the text remains the stubborn black

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The person making the post might have accidentally set the color of the font for the section of text to black. Like so, desu.

 

[Kamikazefrog]

The person making the post might have accidentally set the color of the font for the section of text to black. Like so, desu.

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Ah, no, it's global as it happens on every single post across every thread I've visited

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See the above screenshot. In the post preview you write replies in, theme colours work properly as shown. Your sentence in the quote is coloured normally aside from the "like so" which is coloured black. But in the actual post in the thread, every single piece of text is the solid black colour I'm seeing

 

[Biigoh]

Ah, no, it's global as it happens on every single post across every thread I've visited

Spoiler: screenshot

See the above screenshot. In the post preview you write replies in, theme colours work properly as shown. Your sentence in the quote is coloured normally aside from the "like so" which is coloured black. But in the actual post in the thread, every single piece of text is the solid black colour I'm seeing

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Are you on a phone, tablet or computer?
What browser are you using?
And the theme?

 

[Kamikazefrog]

Are you on a phone, tablet or computer?
What browser are you using?
And the theme?

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Desktop computer running Windows 10

Using Mozilla Firefox

Are you referring to the site theme or the browser theme?

For Browser I'm using the default firefox theme.
For the site theme, the issue affects literally all of them, I've checked. Currently using the light responsive theme since it's the only one where you can actually read a black text on the background.

 

[Kamikazefrog]

wtf the issue literally just solved itself

 

[Biigoh]

wtf the issue literally just solved itself

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Because someone asked the sacred tech support questions.

 

[Kamikazefrog]

I have no idea if it is related, but it must surely have been.

I checked the site using my phone to confirm the issue was only on my computer. Since site theme is saved under the profile, I'd guess, it was set to light responsive. So I swapped it over to Dark Responsive to verify it worked fine on my phone, which it did.

When I refreshed the site here on my computer the issue was solved

 

[Kamikazefrog]

Because someone asked the sacred tech support questions.

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I kneel for the sacred tech support questions


Regardless, this was some really weird bug. Accessing my firefox profile on a separate device seems to have been what solved it. The issue wasn't just present on this site, but also on various other sites through various issues with fonts being changed as well as colours like my problem on this site.

All of the issues are gone now, somehow.

If anyone else has the same issue, I'd try to log onto your firefox profile on another device, as that somehow seemed to fix it for me