firefox-1.5 color madness

[Collins Richey]

On 12/3/05, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> I just upgraded to firefox-1.5 (using the official tarball) on one of my
> systems, and i'm going mad with a new problem.
>
> Whenever I highlight any text on a browser page, the highlighted text
> gets changed to red, and the background is also the same color of red,
> making the highlighted text 100% unreadable.  This was most definitely
> not happening with firefox-1.0.7.
>
> I took a trip to 'about:config' and searched on 'color', and found that
> 'browser.active_color' is set to #EE0000 (red), which is apparently the
> default.  However, I don't see anything that controls the color of the
> background text.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>

I don't know about the offcial 1.5 release. I'm still running 1.5 beta
2. Have you tried the usual Edit  -> Preferences -> Content -> Colors?
On my (pretty much unaltered except for font sizes), highlited text is
bg dark blue fg white, and that's what shows up in the Preferences.

about:config shows the same browser.active_color  #EE0000 setting as
yours, but this never seems to be used for anything but the find input
box.

HTH,

--
Collins Richey
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