Unwanted Red Text in Firefox


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I was wondering if anyone can help. The text in some websites has gone red in Firefox. I have played with all the settings within Firefox, I have uninstalled Java, but still I keep getting this strange red text. It should be blue, it is displayed as blue within IE. Its really weird, I cant figure out how to get it back to normal.

Another thing i have noticed is that the welcome to windows, window is now also in shaded red?

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Weird bug or what?

Can anyone help at all? I have googled like mad with no results.

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have you checked the colours in Firefox > Tools > Options > Content Tab > Colours

Text : Black

Background: White

Unvisited Links: A dark Blue

Visited Links: Purple

And also have the check box for let websites use there own colours.

That's the only reason I could see that they would be changed, but then I'm not a web developer or anything along the lines, I'm sure there could be multiple reasons.

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Yes i've checked all of that and reset it to defaults. Also i have just noticed that if i move an open window over the text some of the blue comes back but not all of it? I am thinking it might be a display driver problem about rendering text??? But ie it is all fine???

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Yes i've checked all of that and reset it to defaults. Also i have just noticed that if i move an open window over the text some of the blue comes back but not all of it? I am thinking it might be a display driver problem about rendering text??? But ie it is all fine???

Umm, I haven't a clue then.

Check these?

http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Web+site+colors+are+wrong

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Well i have Royale Vista 2 theme installed. But even when I go back to normal windows xp theme it still does it? @ EL1TE yes I have all those boses ticked. I'm gpnna try uninstall the Royal Vista theme see what happens. Thing is I have had it installed for ages and it only started doing it recently???

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I have this EXACT same problem. This started happening to me after I installed new drivers for my video card (ati hd3850). I also have this red outline/shadow of red in the Welcome screen. I might try to uninstall FF and see how it goes.

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I get the ed outline/shadow of red too. I got Catalyst 7.12's installed at the moment. I tried uninstalling my themes, still have the problem. I am now having the feeling its the CatCC 7.12's.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi. I was having the same exact problem. I have the HD3850 also. I decided to turn on the cleartype in the display effects dialog and the problem appears to have gone away. What a wierd bug. It was driving me crazy!

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