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Change sidebar background color

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LionessLover
LionessLover
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First, themes do NOT solve this problem.

I want to change the background color of the bookmark- and history sidebar. Changing themes does NOT change that background color - at least none of the 100 or so that I tried.

I asked Google, but nothing seemed to match, which is strange, I'd think LOTS of people would ask this (I'm usually LAST asking for any GUI changes, I always use what is there without changing a thing, but this light gray background is a bad fit for most websites right next to it).

First, themes do NOT solve this problem. I want to change the background color of the bookmark- and history sidebar. Changing themes does NOT change that background color - at least none of the 100 or so that I tried. I asked Google, but nothing seemed to match, which is strange, I'd think LOTS of people would ask this (I'm usually LAST asking for any GUI changes, I always use what is there without changing a thing, but this light gray background is a bad fit for most websites right next to it).

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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This code in userChrome.css will do that. Change the color code to what you want. 

 #bookmarks-view, #historyTree {
   background-color: #DDDDDD !important;
}


http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp

http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css

This add-on makes it quite easy to work with the 3 "user" files.
http://webdesigns.ms11.net/chromeditp.html

finitarry
finitarry
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Those sidebar colours do change with themes for me. Bloody Red sidebar looks very different from Walnut 2 sidebar, for instance.

cor-el
cor-el
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Note that themes currently cover what used to be a persona and only style the toolbar area.
You may need to check out complete themes.