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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/03/06 17:51
Bob wrote:
> I have serious glare problems with my CRT monitor that cannot be
> remedied by any of the usual fixes - I have tried adjusting the
> contrast, brightness and gamma until the cows come home and nothing has
> changed. I have found that if I set the text color to RGB (120,120,120)
> - basically a light grey - the problem pretty much goes away, since
> glare problems with CRT monitors are dependent on the contrast between
> type and background, in part.
>
> Bottom line: I tried to adjust color in Firefox preferences for text
> color. I turned it to the grey above. But the only way to make it work
> was to uncheck "let webpages override my settings". This somehow screwed
> up everything horribly - many backgrounds simply refused to load at all,
> some page functions stopped working, etc.
>
> I am looking for an extension that will allow me to say, highlight some
> text (the text I am trying to read) and turn it all to the grey that I
> want.
>
> Do you know of any?
>
> Sorry, Firefox newsgroups are all down now.
Not a Firefox issue Bob, but hardware. You need a new monitor! Monitor
lose contrast with age, CRT are cheap now that folks want flat panels.
get yourself a new CRT.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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