Black background with white text?

Just installed the trial and am trying to figure out how to get ALL the windows to be black with white text. In prefs I can set the main viewer and filmstrip to black but all others remain gray. I've seen all kinds of screenshots fro Apple so I know it can be done. I did check through the PDF help but didn't see anything there (unless I'm just missing it). TIA.

Hi cbrew,
There are a few options that may be considered here, so I will give brief details of the ones I am thinking could help.
The OS itself may have options that help, and you may as you have tried select to use chosen settings but these simple solutions are often unsatisfactory.
I note [[Accessibility#w_using-a-high-contrast-theme]]#w_using-a-high-contrast-theme says:
Using a High Contrast Theme
Firefox automatically detects if you are using a High Contrast theme and displays everything in your high contrast color scheme. This overrides all other other browser or web page settings, and it affects the Firefox interface itself (all menus, windows, and dialog boxes) and the content of any web page you visit.
That may well be worthwhile trying as an alternative to simply changing font size and colour.
THIS MAYBE THE BEST IDEA<br/>
'''There is a popular add on called No Squint, it takes quite a bit of setting up to work properly but it is very powerful. '''
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/
* read also support note https://urandom.ca/nosquint/
Additionally it is possible to change settings that includes the Firefox User Interface, it is fiddly, and will probably only be worthwhile if using No Squint. It involves setting the preference ''layout.css.devPixelsPerPx''
*usual values to try from say 1 to 2 or 3; in say 0.2 steps
* and notes on setting procedure http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
You may also be interested in
* [[Accessibility]]
* and mainly relating to screen readers an archived article [[Assistive technology compatibility]]
** with discussions [/forums/knowledge-base-articles/707737 1] , [/kb/Assistive technology compatibility/discuss/1996 2] and another archived article [[Firefox 3 with Screen Readers FAQ]]
* http://accessfirefox.org/

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