I can't reproduce this on my Ubuntu 12, 54.0.2840.100.

Can anyone confirm this, or try on openSUSE?

I have the same problem with openSUSE Leap 42.2

Is this using KDE as a DE, or something else? (I think we get the colors to use from GTK?)

Unable to reproduce the issue on openSUSE Leap 42.1  using chrome stable #54.0.2840.100.

Attached a screen shot for your reference.

Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue.
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1. Navigated to wikipedia.com
2. Selected text to highlight.
3. Observed that text became highlighted as normal e.g. the background became blue and the text became white as expected.


Reporter@ - Could you please check this issue on latest dev #56.0.2924.10 by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persist or not.

Thanks...!!

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What's your appearance settings. It only seems to happen if you've set it to use the GTK theme. 

Also, it does not seem to happen in Google Chrome, only in Chromium (which I've installed from the main repos) .

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Unable to reproduce the issue on openSUSE Leap 42.1  using chromium browser version #55.0.2883.75.

Attached screen shots for your reference.

Following are the steps followed to reproduce the issue.
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1. Launched chrome and selected the GTK theme.
2. Navigated to wikipedia.com
2. Selected text to highlight.
3. Observed that text became highlighted as normal e.g. the background became blue and the text became white as expected.


Reporter@ - Could you please check this issue on latest stable #55.0.2883.87 by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persist or not.

Thanks...!!

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I can reproduce it on a clean profile with the above steps, in Chromium 55.0.2883.75. Not sure if it matters, but I'm on Leap 42.2, not 42.1. I'm also getting the same thing on a different computer with Tumbleweed. Also check if the KDE GTK theme settings match.

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Back to test for another go at reproducing.

It's not clear how we will fix this, however, and if it's only in Chromium it's a low priority.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 is not available with us in order to test this issue.

Hence, marking label TE-Hardware-Dependency for further triage of this issue.

Thanks...!!

Still waiting on test. Will follow up again.

I'm going to WontFix this. The reality is that we do not have the resources to try to fix something with a relatively tiny number of affected users (who I appreciate are very much affected) and where a workaround exists (use Chrome, use a different theme, not ideal but possible).

Given the problem is with Chromium on a machine that you should be able to build on, I think it's up to the OpenSUSE community to address the problem.