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Looking for Shortcut for Webpage Color

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Legolas1309
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Usually I am working with black background and white letters and choose: Open Menu --> Configuration --> Contence --> Colors --> (I choose black background and white letters), --> Choose elected Colors instead of those on webpage --> Always.

Some webpages, however dont work: They show black letters on black background. So I temporarily have to switch back the whole row of instructions with "Never" instead of "Always". Shortly afterwards I choose the whole row of instructions again with "Always" at the end. I would like to have a keyboard shortcut for this color change. How to "program" this ? Can I create a macro like in open office, where the programs keeps a row of mouse clicks in mind, or do I have to install an addon ? (Home: Iceweasel 52.2.0 on Debian 8, Job probably the actual Firefox on win7) Thanks for support.

Usually I am working with black background and white letters and choose: Open Menu --> Configuration --> Contence --> Colors --> (I choose black background and white letters), --> Choose elected Colors instead of those on webpage --> Always. Some webpages, however dont work: They show black letters on black background. So I temporarily have to switch back the whole row of instructions with "Never" instead of "Always". Shortly afterwards I choose the whole row of instructions again with "Always" at the end. I would like to have a keyboard shortcut for this color change. How to "program" this ? Can I create a macro like in open office, where the programs keeps a row of mouse clicks in mind, or do I have to install an addon ? (Home: Iceweasel 52.2.0 on Debian 8, Job probably the actual Firefox on win7) Thanks for support.

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There are several Extensions listed in this search : https://www.google.ca/search?q=firefox+extension+change+Webpage+Color&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=OAcJWraAHpKCjwOq0afgAQ You will need to find what runs for you as well as what suits your way....

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

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Shadow110
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It shows here running ver 52 since do not have send info to Mozilla on that is all I get. So what version are you actually running please ? Current ESR is 52.4.1

Legolas1309
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Just made a Debian update: Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (32 bit)

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Chosen Solution

There are several Extensions listed in this search : https://www.google.ca/search?q=firefox+extension+change+Webpage+Color&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=OAcJWraAHpKCjwOq0afgAQ You will need to find what runs for you as well as what suits your way....

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

cor-el
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This can happen if a website assumes default for either text color or background color and only specifies one of these properties.

You can consider to use a bookmarklet to set the default text color to white.

Legolas1309
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I took the google search and tried https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggledocumentcolors-198916/

It works perfectly in win7 and Debian8.5. Thanks for support to all of you.

Legolas1309
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Hi, here I am again. Firefox on win7 updated itself to firefox quantum ... and the addon is not running any more. Well, short pleasure 8-| . I tried several addons (suitable for quantum and not suitable). I got none of them running. Was anyone successful in getting the color toggle functionality running on firefox quantum ? Thanks for help.