I think I may have solved the conundrum below. In Firefox, while on-line, click on "Tools->Extensions->Get More Themes", leading to the Mozilla Firefox Themes page:

https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/ application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}

[all one line], where clicking on "Top Rated" will take you to the URL

https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/ showlist.php?application=firefox&category=Top%20Rated

[all one line] where, as of today, the topmost is:

GNOME-Fx-Simple 1.0.1 By Jaap Haitsma

This theme is especially for people who run the GNOME Simple theme on their GNOME desktop. The default firefox theme does not work correctly with GNOME-Simple. People running other themes then the simple theme should look for the GNOME-Fx or the GNOME-Fx-blue theme

I had to do a bit of monkeying about to get this theme to install (and remain a bit confused as to what precisely happened), but now that it's installed the problem described below is completely cured, and the result is very pleasing!

Best wishes to all, Ted.

On 26-Sep-05 Ted Harding wrote:

Hi Folks,

Can any of you suggest a solution to the following irritation?

I'm running Red Hat 9 on a somewhat low-powered laptop, using Gnome.

I have changed the Gnome "theme" to "Simple" ("Thin appearance, hign performance") and it does indeed make a noticeable difference to performance. (Thanks, by the way, to a suggestion made many moons ago by Dave Gilbert which I came across while doing some housekeeping of old email).

However, it has had one irritating side-effect. I normally use Firefox as browser now, since it is much lighter and snappier than the Mozilla which came with the distribution.

But, when I click on "Bookmarks" and the list of bookmarks drops down (black text on grey background), as I track the mouse down the list the bookmark the mouse is over at any moment is "higlighted" (ironic quotes) by being made completely blank (just a white rectangle, no visible text).

This was not the case before, using the default Red Hat Gnome theme ("Bluecurve"), where the highlighting simply set a lighter grey background and the text remained visible.

Nor does it occur now if I use Mozilla instead of Firefox, since the highlighting sets a blue background instead of the unhighlighted grey, and the black text remains visible.

Of course the Mozilla is the one that came with the Red Hat distribution, so may have been customised, while the Firefox is one I installed myself; so there may be some explanation there.

I can't find anything in Firefox "Edit -> Preferences" which deals with this issue.

Though this does not render Firefox unusuable (you just have to remember to read the text before the mouse comes to it) it does make it more awkward, and is certainly irritating!

Any suggestions?

Best wishes to all, Ted.

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