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Blue text where white should be

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My website has white text in the gallery menu and with the updated Firefox it is bright blue? www.owingsbrothers.com. I have tried the troubleshooting with the 256 color unchecked, the use website colors, high contrast, page style... Nothing works.

My website has white text in the gallery menu and with the updated Firefox it is bright blue? www.owingsbrothers.com. I have tried the troubleshooting with the 256 color unchecked, the use website colors, high contrast, page style... Nothing works.

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I'm not seeing anything unusual on the http://www.owingsbrothers.com/ page

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I did try clearing the cache and cookies. Still didn't change the bright blue text.

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On my Windows 7 machine, Firefox 3 and 4 both render in blue text that is white on the same pages in Internet Explorer 8 or 9. Firefox 3 shows the same text as white on my wife’s Mac OS X.

Strangely, the owingsbrothers screengrab shown here has the offending blue text down the right side, with the top-line menu items properly in white. When I go to the website itself in Firefox, the offending blue is along the top, and the right-side list is good in white. In IE9, the both sets of text are in white as they should be.

The same problem occurs on Firefox’s own website: In the Überbanner, the Mozilla Firefox logo link is white, the FEATURES, MOBILE, ADD-ONS, SUPPORT, ABOUT, and visit links are blue (on the blue background, which is just wonderful), and mozilla.org is white.

As far as I can tell, all my color-related Windows settings are default and very high resolution. (This is a 1-1/2-year-old HP laptop bought with Vista and a two-month-later HP upgrade to Windows 7.) My machine is already in 100% compliance with the instructions at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_look_wrong .

I’m not a web programmer, just a user, and I would like to keep using Firefox, but not being able to read the falsely blue text is getting me really down. Can anyone suggest where I might look for places to tweak either my Win 7 or my Firefox to get them to play well together?

Or do I just have to head off towards Opera? ;-)

Thanks for whatever help you can offer.

God bless!

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I finally found what it was that was forcing text to blue! It was the selections I had made in an Add-in called NoSquint 2.1.

I had told it to make all unvisited sites blue and visited site red. Now that I've unchecked the unvistited option (and told it to make visited sites a different color that should be visible on most backgrounds), all the buttons that contain links are now visible.

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I donot believe I have an add on called "nosquint". I have had to go back to IE so that I could browse. I have a Mac at home with no problem using Firefox. Thanks for your reply.

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Check under Tools | Add-ins and you might find it -- or something else that might do the same thing.

I had forgotten all about NoSquints, but then accidentally bumped into it. You might have some other add-in that lets you select or assign colors to unvisited or visited sites. If I recall correctly, my NoSquint's default colors were blue and red, respectively, and I don't remember whether I had to intentionally select the color-the-link check boxes.

Good luck and God bless! (That is a nice looking site you have, by the way!)