How to allow internet pages to use their own background colors ?

On my old Win7Pro system (Firefox stepwise updated from early version 2 to version 18.0) this works perfectly: for example my own homepage http://www.du-ch.net/ shows its light blue background color. However, on my new Win8Pro laptop with Firefox 18.0 directly installed, the background is always white (system windows color).
NOTE: There is of course a menu option (—settings—menu—color) where changes SHOULD be possible. However, crossing or uncrossing the checkboxes does not change anything in the system behaviour: the Win8 and the Win7 systems show different background colors independently on any checks in the 2 boxes (of course with the same settings, too). Obviously a bug [to be corrected by the developers], but meanwhile does anybody know what to change in the settings file (I will of course be careful !) ?

Thanks, indeed returning to another predefined design resolved the problem. Note that before, I used a personal, modified design, but obviously there was still a "high-contrast" [disturbing] function active, which overread the "allow internet pages colours" setting in Firefox and IE [but not in Opera and Chrome]. The Win8 high contrast themes anyway lead to highly unsatisfactory results in many applications, such as black text on darl grey background, or light grey text on white background.

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== This happened ==
A few times a week
== made that way

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