view-source has white background

[sthiele]

Describe the bug

On Firefox, if I right click on a website and choose "View Page Source" from the context menu I get a page with white background.

view-source:https://darkreader.org/

Steps to reproduce

• Go to 'https://darkreader.org/'
• Right click on website
• Select 'View Page Source'

Expected behavior

A dark source view.

Actual behavior

A bright source view.

System Information:

• OS: Linux
• Browser: Firefox 82.0.3
• Dark Reader version: 4.9.23

[Yash-Singh1]

@sthiele
I think that the view-source protocol is protected from extensions in firefox. This can be enabled with the following on google-chrome:

• In the new UI, go to Settings > Site List and enable on restricted pages
• Enable the chrome://flags/#extensions-on-chrome-urls flag

firefox has prevented access to the protocol for security purposes.

[sthiele]

Is this the same why the raw content is black on white with firefox?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/darkreader/darkreader/master/README.md

[Yash-Singh1]

No, that isn't supposed to be happening:

Is darkreader enabled and raw.githubusercontent.com given access?

[sthiele]

Is darkreader enabled and raw.githubusercontent.com given access?

Yes. I don't have this issue on chrome.

[Yash-Singh1]

@sthiele
Hmm...

You are not alone. I am experiencing this problem also:

It is only on that site

[Gusted]

Hi @sthiele and @Yash-Singh1!

firefox has prevented access to the protocol for security purposes.

That's correct and for an add-on it's not possible to bypass or do anything related to make it still work

Is this the same why the raw content is black on white with firefox?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/darkreader/darkreader/master/README.md

That's another issue #1446 and already a bug has been filled for this at bugzilla however it wasn't updated the last 4 months so I will have a comment on this, if their was any progression or any reason to have this behaviour as for ^ view-source it's for security reasons, but I don't quite understand for normal text pages.

Regards,
Gusted