How to Invert Colors in Firefox 3.6

You can give your eyes a rest by inverting your Firefox colors.

For those who are color blind, have difficulty seeing or are simply staring at a computer screen all day and looking for a change, inverting the colors of your Firefox 3.6 Web browser can be a solution. Inverting the colors from a white screen with black writing to a black screen with white writing can make a huge difference for those who are visually impaired. The darker screen may also relieve some of the stress placed on eyes of those who work or play on a computer for hours a day.

Instructions

1. Double click "Firefox 3.6" from your desktop or Mac dock.

2. Click "Firefox," located to the left of the File tab.

3. Click "Preferences..." and click the "Content" tab.

4. Click the "Colors..." button under the heading "Fonts & Colors."

5. Click the black box next to "Font" to open the font color options. Click the white box, which is the first color in the first row.

6. Click the white box next to "Background" to open the background color option. Click the black box, which is first box in the last row.

7. Click "OK" and exit out of the Content menu to set and save the changes.

Tips & Warnings

• For those who are color blind, the Society for Technical Communication suggests setting your browser colors into colors that are vastly different. For example, you can set your Firefox 3.6 text color to blue, violet, purple or red; then set your background color to one that is significantly lighter like orange, yellow, green or blue-green.

References

• Society for Technical Communication: Accommodating Color Blindness