Re: Firefox link color system settings

[Joseph Brenner <tailorpaul@pm.me>]

Eben King <eben@gmx.us> 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