Firefox 3 Fix for Invisible Links on XGN Forums

[Ahmad]

If you're a Firefox 3 user attempting to browse this forum, you've probably noticed that the links and some plain text are completely not visible.

Some examples of the problem.

Invisible Links: http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/4828/nolinkscg5.th.jpg (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nolinkscg5.jpg)

Invisible Text: http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2332/missingtextji1.th.jpg (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=missingtextji1.jpg)

The problem lies in the 3 color: transparent; entries in the stylesheet of the board.

I've developed a fix for this so that Firefox 3 users can view the site as it was intended, with visible links and text, check below.

The best and most accurate method is to firstly install GreaseMonkey, a Firefox extension, and use a script to change the css after it loads.

1. Install GreaseMonkey extension, click -> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
2. Restart Firefox, you should now see a small colored monkey face icon in the status bar of Firefox.
3. Install GreaseMonkey script, click -> http://apatch.org/fx/xgn_color_css_changer.user.js
4. Start browsing the XGN forums!

As an extra bonus I changed the time text color from red to bolded black as it was hard to read.

[Acerlyte]

Dead set legend! Thanks heaps for this mate :thumb:

[Ahmad]

no probs :)

[gawaterman]

So how do I install this greasmonkey, just have a .xpi file. Where does that go?

OK, got it, have to be in Firefox when you go to that link

Got it working now, thanks for that

[Bird]

My question: why not change the faulty css instead and be done with the problem for everyone, everywhere?

It seems they've tried to define the background to transparent, but used the word 'color' instead. It's a useles definition as it is, could be simply removed.

Simple enough to fix, eh?

p.s. in the meantime we could alert the vbulletin guys about it...