Hi

When you say "background", do you mean the theming behind the toolbar icons?

No I am talking about the desktop. Allot of users like to put up their favorite site be it news or sports etc... I like a dark screen. This ability has been take away by the latest upgrade.

I think we use different terminology. I think of "Desktop" as part of Windows. Within Firefox, there is the toolbar area and the content area. If you previously saw a custom page when you started up (home page) or when you opened a new tab, there are settings and add-ons to change those. It would be helpful if you could describe what has taken the place of the page you used to see.

In case the problem is the new "Activity Stream" feature that replaces the old new tab page and shows on the built-in home page:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste newt and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled preference to switch the value from false to true to false

Does that help at all?

When I say desktop I am speaking of the big white page you get right after you press the home symbol on the tool bar.

I followed your instructions and the value on the line is already true. I did not change it to false.

Thank you for your help.

Sorry, bad copy/paste, I meant to try false!

What is your home page? If no address shows in the address bar, you can pull that out using the Page Info dialog. Either:

• right-click (one button mouse: Ctrl+click) a blank area of the page and choose View Page Info
• (menu bar) Tools menu > Page Info

On the General panel, you can triple-click the URL to the right of Address to select it, then either Ctrl+c to copy it, or right-click>Copy, and you can paste it into a reply.

This hopefully will help us understand what's going on and point toward how to fix it.

script-src 'unsafe-inline'; img-src http: https: data: blob:; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; child-src 'none'; object-src 'none'; report-uri https://tiles.services.mozilla.com/v4/links/activity-stream/csp

Hmm, that link won't open when I click it. This is what has replaced your home page? Please go ahead and turn off Activity Stream in that case.

I now have the FF logo above the search block. This is a start. If I can get the screen color dark and still retain the the search block I am in business.

Thanks

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/browser/extensions/activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream-prerendered.html https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/browser/extensions/activity-stream/data/content/activity-stream.html

To change the background of the page, you can create a userContent.css file and use a custom style rule such as the following:

@-moz-document url-prefix("about:home") {
    body {
        background-color: #333 !important;
        color: #e4e4e4 !important;
    }
    #searchText, td.contentSearchSuggestionEntry {
        background-color: #e4e4e4 !important;
        color: #333 !important;
    }
    .display-container { /* Snippets */
        color: #e4e4e4 !important;
    }
    #onboarding-overlay-button-watermark-icon {
        opacity: 0.5 !important;
    }
}

A userContent.css file (must have that exact name) goes into a new chrome folder in your profile. Firefox will read it at startup.

On my website I have the steps for a userChrome.css file, which is to modify the toolbar area, but except for the different name, the process of creating the folder and file is the same: https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html

Thank you all for helping me find a solution.

KJ