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  • Text selection color changed from blue to near-white, reducing visibility

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What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
This issue seems related to https://orionfeedback.org/d/5719-set-an-accent-color-for-orion/

After updating to the latest Orion RC version, the text selection color has changed from blue to near-white. On websites with light backgrounds it's impossible to see what is being selected. This is purely a color issue, the selection itself works as expected.

In this screenshot I have selected the top title, it's almost not visible.

Version 0.99.125.6-rc (WebKit 618.1.1)
Build date Oct 13 2023
MacBook Pro (macOS Sonoma 14.1 beta build 23B5067a)

I have tried a clean profile, same issue.

My settings are dark mode on macOS, if I manually set the accent colour in macOS settings from Multicolour to Blue it solves the issue, but as far as I know Multicolour is the default value and I'm not sure if the white is intended behavour.

The profile color accented selected in Orion also doesn't seem related, I have different profiles with different colors and both show the same white selection behaviour.

What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
This is how it looks like in the regular version of Orion and Safari with Multicolour selected.

What version of Orion are you running?
Version 0.99.125.6-rc (WebKit 618.1.1)

    What happened? How did it happen? What are the steps to replicate the issue.
    When I hold the cursor over text, and press the trackpad and move it, nothing seems to happen. The background doesn't change colour. But the text is selected (and copy/paste works), you just don't see what text is selected, so copying is hard😃

    It works fine on some pages, like in this text field when editing for example.

    Go to for example https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-67113146 - try and select any of the text on the page.

    (Also, I'm new to Orion, so if there is something obvious I'm missing here, appologies in advance.)

    What did you expect to happen? Describe the desired functionality.
    Was expecting text background colour to change / show me what text is selected.

    What version of Orion are you running?
    0.99.125.6-rc (WebKit 618.1.1)

      This is a known issue on 0.99.125.6-rc when using dark mode. It will be fixed in the next release.

      Thanks for the quick reply!

        Thanks for the quick reply!

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