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Firefox add-on ToggleDocumentColors - adds a toolbar button and keyboard short-cut which you can use to switch between the page-specified document settings (colors) and the settings you've specified in the Firefox options. (The Opera browser has this feature built-in.) So, for example, in the Firefox options, you can set your page background color to black and the text to bright yellow and links to bright green. Then whenever you open a page which has a bright white background, you can click the button on the toolbar to switch to your own colors. Comes in handy for me on the YouTube site, since I have to switch my monitor settings to nearly their brightest, in order to watch the videos, and then having bright white on the rest of the page hurts my eyes.
Hmmm. It seems that YouTube sets the text color based on *your* settings, even when you are using the page-specified settings. The page background color is set to white, based on *their* settings, and yellow on white is not nice. At first I thought it was a bug with the add-on, but it happens even with the add-on uninstalled. Oh well. As long as I can always toggle to my settings when on their site, I think it's still worthwhile to have the add-on.
Hummmmmmm.... I'm just trying out the latest version of Opera, and it doesn't even let you specify your own text color anymore! It only has settings for the page background and link colors. Maybe Opera decided not to have the text color setting anymore, because too many webpages, like YouTube, assume that the user's default text color is black.
Hmmm. It seems that YouTube sets the text color based on *your* settings, even when you are using the page-specified settings. The page background color is set to white, based on *their* settings, and yellow on white is not nice. At first I thought it was a bug with the add-on, but it happens even with the add-on uninstalled. Oh well. As long as I can always toggle to my settings when on their site, I think it's still worthwhile to have the add-on.
Hummmmmmm.... I'm just trying out the latest version of Opera, and it doesn't even let you specify your own text color anymore! It only has settings for the page background and link colors. Maybe Opera decided not to have the text color setting anymore, because too many webpages, like YouTube, assume that the user's default text color is black.
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Date: 2012-01-21 08:19 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)And In firefox options, I choose system colors (meaning colors from the current Windows 7 theme).
Firefox correctly displays system colors.
With ToggleDocumentColors, I switch to page-specified colors.
Firefox correctly displays page-specified colors.
With ToggleDocumentColors, I switch to user-specified colors.
Firefox incorrectly displays the firefox-configured colors rather than system colors. In firefox options, the system colors checkbox is incorrectly not selected.
ToggleDocumentColors 1.3.20111008, Firefox 8, Windows 7.
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Date: 2012-01-21 08:56 pm (UTC)From: