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How can background of any page be altered to prevent glare?

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When clicking on articles, the text is difficult to read because of the glare. How can I change background from white to a gray or blue color? Selecting the entire article only changes background of the fonts. I would like a whole page background color selection option. Thanks for the help.

When clicking on articles, the text is difficult to read because of the glare. How can I change background from white to a gray or blue color? Selecting the entire article only changes background of the fonts. I would like a whole page background color selection option. Thanks for the help.

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There is not a good built-in way to do this. Although you can switch Firefox from using the colors specified in a page to colors you choose, this unfortunately makes many sites harder to use because they use color to indicate buttons or other important interface elements.

You might need an add-on. You could search here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/

These look interesting but I haven't tried either of them myself:

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You can use the NoSquint extension to set font size (text/page zoom) and text color on web pages.

You need to restore this toolbar with an extension like this: