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How to allow internet pages to use their own background colors ?

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Henri
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On my old Win7Pro system (Firefox stepwise updated from early version 2 to version 18.0) this works perfectly: for example my own homepage http://www.du-ch.net/ shows its light blue background color. However, on my new Win8Pro laptop with Firefox 18.0 directly installed, the background is always white (system windows color). NOTE: There is of course a menu option (—settings—menu—color) where changes SHOULD be possible. However, crossing or uncrossing the checkboxes does not change anything in the system behaviour: the Win8 and the Win7 systems show different background colors independently on any checks in the 2 boxes (of course with the same settings, too). Obviously a bug [to be corrected by the developers], but meanwhile does anybody know what to change in the settings file (I will of course be careful !) ?

On my old Win7Pro system (Firefox stepwise updated from early version 2 to version 18.0) this works perfectly: for example my own homepage http://www.du-ch.net/ shows its light blue background color. However, on my new Win8Pro laptop with Firefox 18.0 directly installed, the background is always white (system windows color). NOTE: There is of course a menu option (—settings—menu—color) where changes SHOULD be possible. However, crossing or uncrossing the checkboxes does not change anything in the system behaviour: the Win8 and the Win7 systems show different background colors independently on any checks in the 2 boxes (of course with the same settings, too). Obviously a bug [to be corrected by the developers], but meanwhile does anybody know what to change in the settings file (I will of course be careful !) ?

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Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows Accessibility settings and that you allow pages to choose their colors in Firefox.

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philipp
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maybe this is just an issue of too low contrast or accuracy of colour reproduction of the new monitor?

Henri
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Fortunately not: excellent screen and no problems at all with Opera 12.12 ! However, Internet Explorer also shows wrong background colors, even with the correct "barrier freedom" settings. Maybe the problem is deeply hidden into Windows 8.

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows Accessibility settings and that you allow pages to choose their colors in Firefox.

Henri
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Thanks, indeed returning to another predefined design resolved the problem. Note that before, I used a personal, modified design, but obviously there was still a "high-contrast" [disturbing] function active, which overread the "allow internet pages colours" setting in Firefox and IE [but not in Opera and Chrome]. The Win8 high contrast themes anyway lead to highly unsatisfactory results in many applications, such as black text on darl grey background, or light grey text on white background.