So another effect of my upgrade to Leap 15 was to upgrade FF from 52.8 to 60. It has made many sites more ugly, because they used to have a white background everywhere, but now have a light grey background mostly with patches of white at random.
This is presumably something to do with default background colours, and I wouldn't be surprised if it indicates the website owners have got things slightly wrong, but as a poor user it's a major irritation. Is there some way to get firefox to revert to a white background?
Op dinsdag 17 juli 2018 19:48:02 CEST schreef Dave Howorth:
So another effect of my upgrade to Leap 15 was to upgrade FF from 52.8 to 60. It has made many sites more ugly, because they used to have a white background everywhere, but now have a light grey background mostly with patches of white at random.
Do the same sites look 'ugly' for a new user?
This is presumably something to do with default background colours, and I wouldn't be surprised if it indicates the website owners have got things slightly wrong
What makes you think that?
, but as a poor user it's a major irritation. Is there some way to get firefox to revert to a white background?
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:52:29 +0200 Knurpht-openSUSE knurpht@opensuse.org wrote:
Op dinsdag 17 juli 2018 19:48:02 CEST schreef Dave Howorth:
So another effect of my upgrade to Leap 15 was to upgrade FF from 52.8 to 60. It has made many sites more ugly, because they used to have a white background everywhere, but now have a light grey background mostly with patches of white at random.
Do the same sites look 'ugly' for a new user?
Yes, changing user makes no difference.
This is presumably something to do with default background colours, and I wouldn't be surprised if it indicates the website owners have got things slightly wrong
What makes you think that?
Historically (Netscape-era) there have been similar problems with silver-grey backgrounds vs white backgrounds and suchlike. It seems quite likely to me that there's some probably relatively recent nicety of HTML that requires an explicit declaration or somesuch.
Although gumb's suggestion about system colours might just indicate a change to FF defaults.
, but as a poor user it's a major irritation. Is there some way to get firefox to revert to a white background?
On 17/07/18 19:48, Dave Howorth wrote:
So another effect of my upgrade to Leap 15 was to upgrade FF from 52.8 to 60. It has made many sites more ugly, because they used to have a white background everywhere, but now have a light grey background mostly with patches of white at random.
This is presumably something to do with default background colours, and I wouldn't be surprised if it indicates the website owners have got things slightly wrong, but as a poor user it's a major irritation. Is there some way to get firefox to revert to a white background?
Go into Preferences -> General -> Colours... and uncheck 'Use system colours' if it's already checked. If it's not, verify the background colour shown above.
gumb
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:20:55 +0200 gumb gumb@linuxmail.org wrote:
On 17/07/18 19:48, Dave Howorth wrote:
So another effect of my upgrade to Leap 15 was to upgrade FF from 52.8 to 60. It has made many sites more ugly, because they used to have a white background everywhere, but now have a light grey background mostly with patches of white at random.
This is presumably something to do with default background colours, and I wouldn't be surprised if it indicates the website owners have got things slightly wrong, but as a poor user it's a major irritation. Is there some way to get firefox to revert to a white background?
Go into Preferences -> General -> Colours... and uncheck 'Use system colours' if it's already checked. If it's not, verify the background colour shown above.
That was it. :) Many thanks
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