Friefox html form field issue

For some reason Firefox doesn't render html forms correctly. I have switched around my appearance recently and that might've caused it but since then I believe that I have tried switching everything back to how they were with no change. Other browsers show same pages just fine.
Following picture shows what is wrong. Firefox on the left and Rekonq on the right (Chrome and Konqueror behave the same).
I use up to date KDE.
Any help is appreciated.

Problem seems to be gtk-qt-engine related. Use my kde theme and manually setting qt4-theme won't work. But other gtk themes work just fine. Tried completely removing engine and re-installing, but didn't help.

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