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Firefox 138 background colour

Unread post by adoxa » 2025-04-30, 06:58

I prefer light-grey (#CCC) as my default background colour, but after updating FF to 138 it seems to no longer honour it, or if you make use of the Custom colour option it uses it when it shouldn't. For now I've used userContent.css to set it for body (and dialog), but that does a bit too much, too (e.g. about:addons) and one extension (Link Status Redux) caused the whole page to be replaced with the background colour when moving over a link (also disabled for now). A quick search didn't find a way to restore it, anyone have any ideas?

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Re: Firefox 138 background colour

Unread post by andyprough » 2025-05-03, 04:27

adoxa wrote:
2025-04-30, 06:58
or if you make use of the Custom colour option it uses it when it shouldn't
What does this mean? I tried it on a custom color option in a clean new download to test it out and it seems to give a light gray background like I would expect. What does "uses it when it shouldn't" mean?

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Re: Firefox 138 background colour

Unread post by adoxa » 2025-05-03, 08:26

This is how part of a game looks with automatic
automatic.png
and custom
custom.png
I guess it's because the new option is "Contrast Control", when all I want is a different background when it wasn't explicitly specified.
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Re: Firefox 138 background colour

Unread post by Moonchild » 2025-05-03, 09:45

Maybe you should open a bugzilla bug about this. I don't think this is a good result and they should look into this.
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