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restoring colors

soe705353
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The colors on my Windows desktop got changed. I am not sure how except that after I watched a video on YouTube , I suddenly had two red bars one at the top and one at the bottom. I was able to fix the problem in Windows 10 and my desktop is now normal.

Here is my question. When I went back into FF after fiddling with the Windows DT, I found that I had white text on a black background instead of black text on white background. I tried fixing this in options I have just double checked and sure enough the options say text black background white,but they are still switched on my screen

The colors on my Windows desktop got changed. I am not sure how except that after I watched a video on YouTube , I suddenly had two red bars one at the top and one at the bottom. I was able to fix the problem in Windows 10 and my desktop is now normal. Here is my question. When I went back into FF after fiddling with the Windows DT, I found that I had white text on a black background instead of black text on white background. I tried fixing this in options I have just double checked and sure enough the options say text black background white,but they are still switched on my screen

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox adapts to system themes to some extent.

If you are noticing white-on-black in the toolbar area, you can switch from the Default them to the Light theme. More info: Built-in themes in Firefox - alternative to complete themes.

If you are noticing white-on-black in the tab content area on certain built-in Firefox pages, you can manually override the dark system theme detection as follows:

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

(B) In the search box, type or paste ui.systemUsesDarkTheme

(C) Firefox should display a bar with some radio buttons to choose a new preference type, followed by a + button. Choose Number and click the + button:

(D) Edit the value to either 0 (Light) or 1 (Dark) and then click the blue check mark button or press Enter/Return to save the change.

Any difference?