Firefox - make text readable on sites with dark background colors

Seems to be the fashion lately to have dark text on a dark background. I'm still using my Trust Rusty CRT monitor so these are practically unreadable for me. Anyone know a fix without using SeaMonkey or some other complex mumbo jumbo? Just need contrasting text so I can read it.

I'm using Firefox 3.6.2. Right now the only way I can read text on these sites is to select it with the mouse. Even then I don't always get contrast.

Hi,

This may be not what you are after, but what about:

Firefox > Tools > Options > Content tab > Colours > Uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of using my selections above"

Does this solve the issue?

Richard

That helps to read it. Any way I can set it for one tab only?

Okay, I've got it. If I use Opera and in the View menu choose Style User Mode then it will be white background. I can just pop Opera up for lame sites without messing with my FF settings. Thanks for inspiring the solution.

edit: btw I wrote a little hotkey for this type of situtation. Rather than install an AddOn or Plugin for each browser like Launchy or similar, I use this doodad I wrote called Selector. It has other uses but comes in handy for launching another browser with selected text(as in click in the location field) by just hitting the hotkey and selecting your browser or other app from the listbox.

You can see the screen shot about 1/3 of the way down this page.
http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

Nothing against Launchy. Just if you use 4 different browsers you end up installing 4 different launch plugins.. just to launch the other 3 browsers and back and forth. This method is more generic.

Hi,

Thanks for the +rep. Sorry, but I can still find no way of doing it for just one tab. Just thought I would tell you what I did know.

Richard

No sweat. The Opera kludge is fine. After all, I almost never bother with those sites. It's like, if you don't have a 16x9 monitor don't enter. Ok, fine.