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Fx 4.0 color options question

Discussion in 'Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey' started by lethedoom, 2011/03/30.

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    lethedoom

    lethedoom Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am bothered by glare and adjust browser colors for high contrast on a dark background. Black is boring after a while so I trade off to dark Green or Blue or Red etc.


    In IE 9 through 'Internet Options' I can choose a background color and then darken it using the 'Define Custom Color' feature.


    http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/3805/ie9internetoptionscolor.png


    In Chrome 10 with the 'Any Colors' extension I can darken using a slider.


    http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/2046/chrome10anycolors.png


    Firefox 4.0 'Options'-->'Content'-->'Colors' continues the Mozilla policy of freezing the color chart to the default choices so I cannot darken the darkest available non-black choices. I have been unable to find an add-on that doesn't require changing the color intensity on individual web pages rather than systemically.


    http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/4522/firefox40optionscontent.png


    Can anyone tutor me how to manipulate the Firefox color chart ? Thanks in advance
     
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    Westside

    Westside Inactive Alumni

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    I have never had the occasion or interest to make changes, but, have you checked the Color option popup? There is a box, which is checked, by default, to allow pages to use their own colors. If you wish to make your own choice, you uncheck the box. Is this what you mean?
     

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    lethedoom

    lethedoom Inactive Thread Starter

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    No. I can manipulate the Options choices--my problem is how can I darken the darkest red, green. blue etc in their color palette pop up. Other browsers and Acrobat Reader have capacity to do that directly or with an add on. Firefox is take it or leave it.
     
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    Westside

    Westside Inactive Alumni

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    . I can't understand how one could darken the darkest! I will try to go to another browser, and see if I can understand what you mean.
     
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    get yourself a little addon called stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/. Then learn a little basic coding and you can change the way sites look to you. You can choose which fonts YOU want, what background colors YOU want, and even get rid of bells on whistles on some sites that YOU don't want. You can find some coding here: http://userstyles.org/. If there's nothing there for you then look at some of the styles there, and teach yourself a little coding.

    This is one addon that I can't live without.
     
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    The below is not for beginner and may even be a challenge for intermediate if one throws caution to the wind or has poor memory

    This may be something you'd be interested in.....

    As a self described expert ask google about firefox about:config tweak color hex.

    http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp
    http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html


    I can not or choose not to elaborate on this as it is time consuming and I have very little of this to spare as of late. Your on your own here. Go in peace and good luck.
    Make sure you know and understand what your doing, how to back firefox config or how to restore defaults. Don't allow yourself to forget what you have changed and how you can change it back. Study up study up back up backup!
     
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    lethedoom

    lethedoom Inactive Thread Starter

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    other browsers

    IE: Internet Options-->Colors--uncheck 'Use Windows colors', click on 'Background', click on darkest red or blue or green and then click on 'define Custom Colors', slide the arrow head on the right margin down to darken the color and click 'Add to Custom Colors, then ok ok and voila. Chrome with the Change Colors add on and Adobe Acrobat Explorer Preferences Accessibility etc are similar. I want to be able to do that equally simply with Firefox.
     
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    lethedoom

    lethedoom Inactive Thread Starter

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    thanks, but I want a simple global solution to make web pages interestingly readable--this is a complicated alternative.
     
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    lethedoom

    lethedoom Inactive Thread Starter

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    thanks

    thanks, but I want a simple global solution to make web pages interestingly readable--this is a complicated alternative. i will check it out when i have time to learn such a complicated task, but i would surmise it is more valuable for web site design than making web sites more readable for my individuated needs using Firefox.
     
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    lethedoom

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