Thursday, July 5, 2007

Firefox and dark color schemes

So I changed my desktop color scheme to a dark theme. The only problem is, firefox takes from that color scheme when displaying websites, causing the websites to display incorrectly. In the Neutronium theme pack (found at gnome-look.org) it includes instructions on how to modify firefox to fix this issue. I just turned those instructions into a patch.

~Russ

P. S. Please note that this patch applies to the source, not to an install of firefox. In order to get it to apply to an install of firefox, change the lines starting at line two to
--- res/forms.css 2007-05-10 14:28:20.000000000 -0400
+++ res/forms.css 2007-05-10 14:30:18.000000000 -0400
and around line 105 to
--- res/html.css 2007-05-10 14:28:20.000000000 -0400
+++ res/html.css 2007-05-10 14:30:39.000000000 -0400

Patch - mozilla-firefox-dark-color.patch

Edit: The latest version of Neutronium includes a different, user specific, way of fixing this which you only need to put one file in your ~/.mozilla directory. This method is much cleaner and should be used instead. For information on it, download the Neutronium Unity theme pack and read the Instructions

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!

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