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How do I change the color of the text on my inactive tabs?

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My computer glitched up and deleted the customizations in Firefox. I have restored the theme I was using, but the inactive tabs are back to unreadable black text on dark blue. I cannot find the Q/A I used before to change the text color. Help, please?

My computer glitched up and deleted the customizations in Firefox. I have restored the theme I was using, but the inactive tabs are back to unreadable black text on dark blue. I cannot find the Q/A I used before to change the text color. Help, please?

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What was your earlier username? You can substitute it in the link to your profile:

https://support.mozilla.org/user/Silverdrake

If you saw it in someone else's thread, that wouldn't help...

What do you think about using a custom style rule to modify the text or background? By background I mean creating background tabs on the bar using, for example, the following style rule:

https://userstyles.org/styles/100627/outline-background-tabs-firefox-29-australis

Custom style rules can be applied to Firefox's interface using either the Stylish extension or a userChrome.css file.

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Thank you for the suggestion, jscher2000, but after installing it, I can't make heads or tails out of it.

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Classic Theme Restorer (Customize Australis) {web link} Restore squared tabs, appmenu, add-ons bar, small button view and more on Australis UI (Windows/MacOSX/Linux + Fx 29+).

This will restore many of the things the last upgrades took away.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2827985 Classic Theme Restorer - Discussion Thread (v2)

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Silverdrake said

Thank you for the suggestion, jscher2000, but after installing it, I can't make heads or tails out of it.

What should happen is, after you install Stylish and restart to activate it, when you open the page for that style, you get a blue Install button. No?