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Google Mail looks "funny" thru Firefox, but not through google Chrome.

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Lots of empty rectangles and bold lines. Very stark looking!

Lots of empty rectangles and bold lines. Very stark looking!

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Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows/Mac Accessibility settings.

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own colors.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"

Note that these settings affect background images.

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I gather that reloading the page (Ctrl+r -- or, to bypass cached files -- Ctrl+Shift+r) isn't bringing it back into line...

Do you recall any error messages about the site, security warnings, etc.?

Do you use a "high contrast" theme for Windows 7?

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Reloading, etc does nothing. No error messages. Been running win 7 Sp1 for quite a while, and very happy with Firefox. Have uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox. Also uninstalled Google, and then added Google Chrome and email was fine. I dumped chrome when they slipped Astromenda "helper" into Chrome. Have uploaded scfreen shot Have vision problems which makes all this bs difficult for me.

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Chosen Solution

Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows/Mac Accessibility settings.

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own colors.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"

Note that these settings affect background images.

See also:

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Tried other things, then went to the Mozilla link. Did this "(Windows Vista and later users) Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Personalization -> Window Color & Appearance -> Appearance - uncheck "High Contrast", restart the application [1][2]" and PROBLEM SOLVED.

I really do appreciate all of the suggestions. What a great group of folks!

Larry