Selection color in dark mode, with Firefox

[benatkin]

In dark mode, selected text is difficult to read, in Firefox.

[benatkin]

It’s because of OS X & Firefox apparently. Firefox doesn’t adjust the selection color for a dark background, but Chrome does. I changed mine to blue and it was still hard to read in FF. Perhaps using CSS to define a selection color will be worth the tradeoff of overriding users’ system configurations. Maybe it should only be done in dark mode.

Not a bug so much as a UX issue that at least one person experienced…

[jrus]

Selection color for white text should always be something darker than middle gray. If browsers don’t do that natively, then the CSS should specify something (e.g. dark blue).

[tom]

Okay, update: text-selection color of notebook contents is now fixed when you’re in dark mode, so that Firefox and any other browser that doesn’t auto-adjust from system defaults will still yield readable selections.