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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by kgtm on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:10AM (#8584319)
Firefox is unusable for developers with poor eyesight that use OS-level accessibility features such as high contrast on recent versions of Windows.

There is an open bug but no love: [ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790706 ]. Firefox forces high-contrast colors, completely destroying HTML rendering, with no option to disable this behavior.

Using a high contrast theme in Windows doesn't mean i don't want to see web pages as their developer intended.

Chrome gets it right, why can't Firefox?

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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by Yoric on Monday November 10, 2014 @03:52PM (#8586309)
I am not familiar with this part of the code, but generally, the answer to this question is « lack of manpower, but if you volunteer to implement it, we'll be glad to help you out and have you onboard. »

If anybody motivated to help us implement features reads these lines, the next step is to join us on IRC: irc.mozilla.org, channel #introduction .

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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by bzbarsky on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @08:39AM (#8589700)
I moved that bug to a place where someone who might know something about the matter might actually see it...
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Re:Firefox Developer Edition by harmonicon on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:36AM (#8584509)
I have to say I rather like it that way but I guess I am not the target user group for such accessibility features.
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