I've never seen those.

Does it help if you reload the page using Ctrl+Shift+r (this bypasses files in the cache, in case they have become inconsistent due to changes by Google)?

Do you have any add-ons that might be adding boxes around links as an "accessibility" aid?

To see whether an add-on might be responsible, you can try viewing the page in Firefox's Safe Mode.

First, make a backup of your computer for safekeeping. To back up Firefox, see Backing up your information.

Next, try starting Firefox in Firefox Safe Mode. Be careful not to "reset" anything permanently if you didn't back up.

Does that fix it?

You can check:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_look_wrong

Thank you both for the replies. I remember messing around with Windows Vista to try and improve display size and contrast. I think the problem appeared after that. I did try safe mode and starting FF with all ad-ons disabled. No Joy. I attacked a screen shot of My two browsers. I would like FF (bottom) to look like I.E. (top) Thanks Frank C

Did you check this article?

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong

Hmmm, check whether you have blocked images from gstatic.com or ssl.gstatic.com here:

Tools > Options > Content

to the right of "Load images automatically" click Exceptions.

Anything like that on the list? If not, some external software (e.g., security suite or Blue Coat K9) could be blocking it.

Thanks to jscher and cor-el I now have the Google home page that I wanted. I was not blocking gstatic.com or ssl.gstatic.com I looked at: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong I think items 2 and 3 fixed my problem. item 2 is the stronger candidate. My attempt to improve the display for my old eyes - contrast and font size was not very successful. I Checked these four items carefully from "website colors are wong. 1 (Firefox) View -> Page Style should not be set to "No Style"

Page style was set to wiki

2 "Tools -> Options -> Content -> Colors" check "Allow pages to use their own colors, instead of my selections above"

This item was NOT checked. It is now checked.

3 (Windows users) Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Accessibility -> Display -> uncheck "Use High Contrast", restart the application

This item was checked. I un- checked it. I think this fixed the problem.

4 (Windows users) Right-click the Firefox shortcut -> Properties -> Compatibility -> uncheck "Run in 256 colors", restart the application

This item was not checked.

You can use the NoSquint extension to set font sizes (text/page zoom) and text colors on web pages.

• NoSquint - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/