Suggestion box: change color?

[ron_1]

Operating system: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (Excalibur)
Browser version: 34.0.1 SSE2 GTK2
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: 64-bit

First, I did a search on the forums and came up empty. Is there an about:config setting to change either the color of the text or the background of the suggestion box that appears when typing in the search box? (I looked through it and didn't see anything, but I'm not an expert so it may have slipped by me.) If not, is there a css trick to accomplish this?

[Gemmaugr]

Not an expert either, but a quick Brave search led me to this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/999828

Not sure how valid it is now though.

[jars_]

about:config type ui.text
there is my settings:

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ui.textSelectBackgroundAttention;#8A2BE2
ui.textHighlightForeground;#008000
ui.textSelectBackgroundAttention;#8A2BE2

[ron_1]

Not an expert either, but a quick Brave search led me to this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/999828

That's the find bar (ctrl+F). I replaced "findbar" with "searchbar" but that didn't work. I also searched that Mozilla site and didn't find anything.

about:config type ui.text

I don't have any of those strings.

To clarify, it's the color of the suggestion box that appears when you start typing in the search bar that I want to change. You can see why, I can only read it when hovering over one suggestion:

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[Gemmaugr]

Not an expert either, but a quick Brave search led me to this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/999828

That's the find bar (ctrl+F). I replaced "findbar" with "searchbar" but that didn't work. I also searched that Mozilla site and didn't find anything.

Ah, ok. And the more comprehensive solution given there;

If you need to examine elements of the user interface, install DOM Inspector and Element Inspector. You can then simply hold down Shift and right-click an UI element. N.B.: this shortcut is used to bring up the default context menu on sites that replace it or prevent it from showing; best to keep Element Inspector disabled when you're not using it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... ctor-6622/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo ... inspector/

Changing to https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/dominspector/ & CTRL+Shift+C (Pale Moon Inspector) doesn't show anything relevant?

[ron_1]

I don't understand what any of that has to do with the drop-down suggestion box.

[ron_1]

Okay, I sort of figured it out (the DOM inspector add-on). But it doesn't seem to work in the suggestion box. (At least it's not giving me something I can use, that I can see.)

[Gemmaugr]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1290717

[ron_1]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1290717

I'm about to give up. This didn't work. And even if it did, I'm not sure it would fix the suggestion box as the focus of this is the url bar background.

[Kris_88]

These preferences work in Windows, but they affect not only the search bar but also the address bar.

user_pref("ui.-moz-field", "#00ff00");
user_pref("ui.-moz-fieldtext", "#ff0000");
user_pref("ui.highlight", "#ff0000");
user_pref("ui.highlighttext", "#00ff00");

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[ron_1]

These preferences work in Windows,

I assume you had to manually create these strings in about:config? Because I don't see them.

Anyway I already "fixed" the issue by switching Pale Moon themes and then using light theme-maker to mimic (as best as I could) the OS theme.

[Kris_88]

I assume you had to manually create these strings in about:config? Because I don't see them.

It often happens that a parameter is missing and needs to be created. Many parameters are recognized by the browser but are not included in the settings database.

Anyway I already "fixed" the issue by switching Pale Moon themes and then using light theme-maker to mimic (as best as I could) the OS theme.

Yes, it often happens that a person asks for something, but in fact he doesn’t need it.

[ron_1]

Yes, it often happens that a person asks for something, but in fact he doesn’t need it.

Well I still need it to be able to use Tangerinemoon or Tangomoon in tandem with my OS theme Blue-Submarine. That's why I put the word fixed in quotes.