Firefox contrast

[Mick M.]

Hello;
   I am using the latest version of Firefox, under F14 fully updated and KDE.
What I would like to know is how to heighten the contrast of the drop down menu.
E.g. - bookmarks, the one under the cursor is very low contrast.

Normal is black on white, under the mouse cursor changes to white on light grey - so it becomes invisible.

I have changed themes and skins to no avail.

Thanks
  Mick M.

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[Jorge Fábregas]

On 05/02/2011 11:16 PM, Mick M. wrote:
> I am using the latest version of Firefox, under F14 fully updated and KDE.
> What I would like to know is how to heighten the contrast of the drop down menu.

Firefox uses the GTK toolkit and KDE uses Qt so it doesn't matter how
you customize your KDE (buttons, colors etc) it won't affect Firefox.
If you have GNOME installed, I suggest you log-out and log-in to GNOME,
change the GNOME appearance there ..and then log back to KDE.  Some
years ago there was a package called qt-gtk  (something like that) that
enabled you to change the "GTK settings" while using KDE.  I'm sure the
KDE guys will know which package you need for that.

HTH,
Jorge

[g]

On 05/03/2011 03:16 AM, Mick M. wrote:
> Hello; I am using the latest version of Firefox, under F14 fully updated and
> KDE. What I would like to know is how to heighten the contrast of the drop
> down menu. E.g. - bookmarks, the one under the cursor is very low contrast.
>
> Normal is black on white, under the mouse cursor changes to white on light
> grey - so it becomes invisible.
>
> I have changed themes and skins to no avail.

i believe what you are asking about is covered in these files;

/home/[username]/.mozilla/firefox/????????3.default/chrome/userChrome.css
  /home/[username]/.mozilla/firefox/????????3.default/chrome/userContent.css

use these links to see how these files are used;

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/
  http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
  http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
  http://www-archive.mozilla.org/catalog/end-user/customizing/
  http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

also, have a look at;

http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html

be sure to check links in these pages.

you may not find an _exact_ example, but this should give you some bearing
as to what needs to be changed.

you could also use an 'add-on', but i suggest you you them as last resort
as they add 'bloat' and can be more of a problem than an advantage.

hth. if not, post back.