Help, visited messages within Gmail won't change colors.

June 6, 2008 2:05 AM

I have Firefox 3 color options set so that visited links turn a dark Grey when clicked, every site seems to work with this but the sender and subject lines in Gmail.. What's strange is the links on the left hand side of the Gmail page (Inbox, starred, sent mail, drafts, etc ) go dark when clicked on. Does anyone know if Google uses some special CSS or something on the right hand side, can this be overridden so the visited links will turn the Grey I have checked?
posted by debu to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

I think Gmail uses Ajax... unfortunately I don't have any idea what this means because I only know HTML. You may need a Stylish script for this.
posted by IndigoRain at 2:11 AM on June 6, 2008

Response by poster: Yeah I thought I'd use the stylish add-on a while back, the only problem is I have "Allow pages to use their own colors, instead of the ones you've selected above" unchecked. Stylish needs that checked to function. This way every site I visit is a dark background with white text, the visited links should go a dark grey (How I have it setup in FF3 options). Every site seems to work like this but Gmail.. Unfortunately, with stylish to have every site default lto colors like this I'd have to make a dark user style for every site I visit, rather than just having pages default to those colors.

Does anyone know if it's possible to override or tweak the Gmail Ajax so the visited links will go Grey? I know there's a "Better Gmail" extension that changes the font so it seems like this would be possible??
posted by debu at 2:33 AM on June 6, 2008

I use the Better Gmail with the 'redesigned' skin and it suits my wishes well, but wishes vary. Surely there is a greasemonkey or stylish script? What if you change the FF setting to default, would that make a difference?
posted by dawson at 2:37 AM on June 6, 2008

Response by poster: I've been looking for a greasemonkey script that changes those gmail elements with no luck. If I used Stylish I'd have to make a dark theme for every site I visit, which just isn't feasible, especially when everything works fine except gmail with my FF color settings. I just dont' get why the sender and subject links don't go dark when clicked in Gmail, but the right side of the Gmail interface (inbox, drafts, sent, etc.) does. Can someone shed some light on that? thanks
posted by debu at 11:46 AM on June 6, 2008

Stylish will allow you to make a style that applies to "all sites". You could do that, and then a separate style for Gmail.
posted by timepiece at 3:10 PM on June 8, 2008

Response by poster: hey thanks for that, I actually just discovered the "global styles" in stylish last night. I'd tried it out when it was just developed and it didn't do what I was looking for, but the new version works great.

Also this might help someone: I found in Win XP display ---> appearance ----> advanced the lower portion allows you to play around with default colors of menus and fonts. Especially useful to those that are working with dark themes. I'll be using a Mac soon though hopefully there's a similar way to tweak OS display...
posted by debu at 11:08 PM on June 9, 2008