It’s basically the same thing that happened in this old thread from 2021.
Problem is the flag used to fix it, #forced-colors, seems to have vanished from my flags page. I’ve thoroughly checked for anyone else having this issue and found nothing, so I’m posting it myself.
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): Turn on windows high contrast mode.
Same here. It’s been broken for the past 3-4 days now. Running on Windows 10. I use a high contrast, white text on gray background theme. Every single website is solid gray now. There’s no color on anything that isn’t an image. No highlights, no shades, no borders, no colors, everything blends together in a sea of gray. It’s awful.
In Settings:Appearance, assigning colors as Windows/Light/Dark does nothing. They all look the same.
Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents in brave://flags/ does nothing.
Hardware acceleration On/Off does nothing.
Previously Google Chrome had been rendering properly these past few days. But today it updated and now it’s broken too. Chrome Version 138.0.7204.50 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Edge was always broken. You’d think Microsoft of all people would have a functional profile for System/Light/Dark. Nope.
Firefox renders correctly. If this doesn’t get fixed, I might have to migrate back over. I need high contrast to have a proper dark theme on Windows. I hate how it ruins everything else.
Something to note in Brave vs Chrome is that all checkbox sliders are completely invisible in Brave when this happens. In Chrome they’re visible, rendered with the text color.
I found a solution while searching for support on other browsers. It works for all Chromium based browsers. Unfortunately it seems it’s only temporary, but for now we can still use it.
Open brave://flags/
Locate Temporarily unexpire M137 flags and set to Enabled
Relaunch browser.
The Forced Colors option will be available again. Go back into flags, and change Forced Colors to Disabled
Relaunch browser. It should be fixed. For now. It may only be a matter of time before a future update removes the option entirely.
Forced Colors being removed in future versions will be a serious issue if there isn’t a replacement solution to the high contrast problem.
