Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... I wanted to change the color of the visited links, but that
> changes text and background colors too, which makes many web sites
> somewhere between "really messed up" and "unreadable". I would like
> to change the link colors only and leave the other colors unset.
Inside of Firefox there are some settings you might play with to see if you can
get something you like (note: you probably can't):
Edit -> Settings -> General -> Manage Colors
Then you'll see options to set four colors, Text, Background, Unvisited Links &
Visited Links.
There's also a toggle box for "Use system colors", and then then there are
three choices for what to do when you don't want to use system colors:
Never
Only with High Contrast Themes
Always
But then, none of these are likely to do precisely do what you want, either.
(This color settings feature has been broken in one way or another since
Netscape 1.0. I've been using it religiously. What this says about me is left
as an exercise.)
The usual trouble with me has involved wanting to get to a light-on-dark color
scheme-- you often get one of your colors mixed with one of the site's colors:
black-on-black color schemes aren't so great.
This feature would be a lot more useful if you could toggle it on and off
quickly, say with a custom keyboard shortcut that handles that "Use system
colors" setting-- (but modern software never has that degree of customization).
Note: these days, if what you want is light-on-dark color scheme you'd probably
have more luck with a firefox add-on like this, which uses some new features
added to CSS in 2019:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader
