firefox-1.5 color madness

[Net Llama!]

On 12/03/2005 03:19 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

Yes, i checked there first.  Those settings never seemed to have any 
relevance to highlighted text.  I've got black for 'Text' and light gray 
for 'Background'.

> 
> 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.

This seems to describe my problem (sort of):
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=346814&highlight=highlight+text+color+colour

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