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From: "Hilco Wijbenga" <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:09, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input
> fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your desktop,
> so if you have a suitably Gothic light-on-dark colour scheme you cannot read
> your input. I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css
> page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same
> thing with Firefox. A quick google reveals the presence of userContent.css in
> your profile, so I added my rules, eg,
>
> html->body {
>  background-color: white;
>  color: black;
> }
>
> input {
>  background-color: #E1E7FD;
>  color: black;
> }
>
> but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this?

Have you looked at Preferences --> Content --> Fonts & Colors -->
Colors...? Uncheck the "Allows pages ..." and set your own
preferences. I've never used it but it looks like it might help.