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When I updated to Firefox 146 yesterday, the theme I was using disappeared and I ended up making a new theme using Firefox Color. I submitted it to the add-ons list and it has now been accepted, so now I am using it installed from the add-ons. Ever since I started using the new theme, even before installing it from the add-ons menu, my private browsing window is also using that theme. I want private browsing to use the default dark theme. That way I can easily tell if I'm using the private window or the regular Firefox window. However, I can't find a way to change a setting to go back to the dark window for private browsing. I've already checked about:config and browser.theme.dark-private-windows is set to true. I even toggled it to false and then back to true but there is no change. I looked at the settings for the extension Firefox Color, and it is turned off for private windows. I looked at the settings under the theme add-ons, but I don't see a setting there to turn it on or off for private windows. Am I missing something?

I am now on the very latest version, 146.0.1, and my private browsing window is still using the same theme as my regular window.

Hello! Have a quick question concerning Firefox Themes. I have a rather large monitor (5120x1440). When I download a theme, the left quarter of the theme is a solid color (not theme related), see attached screenshot. Is this because the theme was made for small resolution? Can I increase the resolution on the downloaded theme? Thanks! Grateful Firefox user - Jeff

It used to be when I would choose a theme that when a new tab or window opened that the theme was there. It hasn't been doing even with themes that I have used previously.

What is causing this?

Looking forward to your response. Thank you in advance, May Hughart

I have three laptops which are synced. One function I do not want to sync is my individual selection of themes. Every time I change the theme on one, the other two go blank. In my sync settings I sync Settings and Add-ons. Do I need to disable one of these to correct the ongoing problem?

I set a theme with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire.../firefox-color/(Firefox Color), I tried changing the theme in settings to light or dark but neither work. I'm wondering if there are other ways to do so in Firefox that I could try. I'm on zen browser which is why it may not have worked.

Hello!

SECERITY: LOW, COSMETIC DESCR.: I love how many yhere are beautiful themes for ff. I Like to install any the I think is beautiful and keep enjoing all of them by switching them to see it on FF itself. Now - not aftyer every change of active theme, but after a few/scrooling the order of the Themes on list is re-sorted. It is a little trouble for me as I like to chnge/watch them afew times a day (like person who like to watch theirs clothes, how their look in that clothes, so they keep changing them and see how they look in the mirror). So Id like the list of themes to be fixed, so I can go throuh the whole list and make sure I didn't missed any of my installed themes. OK, I hope I manage to explain it. I'm 40+ yo soft dev. so you can ask me technicall questions. And also: a setting among about:config to change this list behavior whould be absolutely enough solution for me.

Best regards, Michał Dąbrowski

Turns out you cant use your own stuff until it is approved, Sorry for this question I am absolutely new to firefox workshop. Case closed (Please delete it because I couldn't find how to do that)

As above themes not working on latest version of firefox difficulty reading menu & tabs bar as light blue needs to be dark coloured

Also have difficulty reading your website because of white background will not work on dark mode retinopathy burn

I have installed an animated theme for my home page a while back, but recently if I minimize firefox the memory usage increases until it freezes my pc completely. I know this issue has been reported as Bug 1828587 2 years ago and it is said that it is fixed, but here I am experiencing the same thing. I would appreciate any help since I am not that good at coding a css file. Here is my userContent.css code if maybe i set something up wrong:

@-moz-document url("about:newtab"), url("about:home"), url(about:privatebrowsing) {

   /* Sets background image and autoscale image to browser window. */
   body {
       background-image: url("wallpapers/wallpaper.avif") !important;
       background-size: cover !important;
       background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
       background-attachment: fixed !important;
       background-position-x: center !important;
       background-position-y: bottom !important;
   }

   @-moz-document url("about:newtab"), url("about:home") {
       .top-site-outer .title {
           color: white !important;
       }

       .logo-and-wordmark .wordmark {
           fill: white !important;
           color: #00aaff !important; /* fallback for text */
       }

       .context-menu-button.icon {
           fill: white !important; /* for SVG-based icons */
           color: white !important; /* for any text-based fallback */
           opacity: 1 !important; /* ensure visible even when normally dimmed */
       }
   }

The second part is to make some of the text on my homepage white so it is visible.

you are repeating old mistakes. You have become worse than Microsoft. Firefox is not remembering open tabs again. I have supported your Firefox until now but enough is enough.

I have a custom theme enabled on my browser. Every time I log into Firefox on a shared university computer my theme is turned off for that desktop aswell as my personal laptop. I have to manually enable it on my personal devises again each time after using school computers. Is there a way to prevent this?

I’m at my wits’ end with this. Firefox keeps forcing a system-synced theme at launch, and it flat-out refuses to respect the settings I’ve configured — both in about:config and via a custom user.js file.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

• Set layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override to 0 in about:config → it reverts back to 2 after every restart.

• Created a user.js with user_pref("layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override", 0); → completely ignored.

• Disabled all sync options, including themes.

• Verified that no active studies are interfering.

• Double-checked that I’m not syncing across devices.

• Tried applying a specific theme and setting it manually — still overridden at launch.

No matter what I do, Firefox insists on syncing the theme to the system’s dark/light setting. I want my browser theme independent from the OS — period.

Is there a deeper setting I’m missing? A hidden override? Some service that’s reapplying the system setting post-launch? This feels like Firefox is actively fighting me — and it's infuriating.

Would appreciate any insight or workaround. I just want full manual control over my theme. Why is that so hard?