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How can I change the colour of words displayed witht the 'find' option? It seems the default is green but I would like red

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peterforbes
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When using the 'find' option to locate text in a web page the word is, by default, highlighted in green. However this is difficult to see. How can I change the colour to red - or any other colour?

When using the 'find' option to locate text in a web page the word is, by default, highlighted in green. However this is difficult to see. How can I change the colour to red - or any other colour?

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cor-el
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You can set that color via the String pref ui.textSelectBackgroundAttention on the about:config page.
That pref doesn't exist by default, so you need to create a new String pref via the right-click context menu and set the value to the preferred color (#rrggbb)

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