Change Color of Star Bookmark Button in Firefox

Under Firefox 57+ Quantum the Star Bookmark button you see in the URL bar has a default color which appears to be inherited from the system/somewhere? This color is used in other places like the download icon. I find this very annoying as I use this to check if something is finished downloading and the default blue color of star-button throws me off often.

You can modify the color using userChrome.css, here are the quick steps to do it.

For Windows go to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\YOURPROFILE.default\chrome\ (you can type %appdata% to get part way there).

Create a userChrome.css file if you don't have one, and edit it in a text editor, add the following, save and restart Firefox.

#star-button[starred] {
  fill: orange !important;
}

You can change the color to something else by modifying the fill: orange part, or use #hexcode or rgb(0, 0, 0)

Should be like this now:

When you click the button the page bookmarked big star icon is still a different color however, I'm not sure what controls it, make a comment if you find the element that does.

For further editing open chrome://browser/skin/browser.css in firefox if you want to mess around some more, and apply any changes to your custom userChrome.css

Also check this site out for a few different changes, like making bookmark folder different colors: https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html

Christmas & Holiday Gift Certificate Templates

Some new free gift certificate templates added to GiftTemplate in time for Christmas and the holidays. A reindeer one standing next to a Christmas tree and a simple gift box one with a purple and yellow theme for other holidays or even birthdays and such.

Reindeer Christmas Gift Certificate Template

Holiday Gift Certificate Template

Halloween Gift Certificate

A new Halloween gift certificate has been added to GiftTemplate, I figure freaky clowns are all the rage these days so an evil clown was included on this years Halloween certificate.

Make a free certificate yourself with this free Clown Halloween Gift Certificate

Commander Keen with Dosbox & Business Gift Certificates

I wanted to play some old school commander keen so I used DosBox 0.74. However I didn't like how the default resolution looked for me and after sometime I figured out that editing the default dosbox-0.74.conf file got me the results I wanted. Which is fullscreen, but black bars on left and right with pixel perfect non-stretched rendering. This may not be the ideal or original way Keen was meant to be played, because originally it was stretched out, I believe it was 320x200 stretched to 320x240. But I prefer it this way.

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=1920x1080
windowresolution=1920x1080
output=overlay
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt
usescancodes=true

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=true
scaler=none

Another issue I had is getting my Xbox One DPad to be recognized in DosBox. The trick is to edit the .conf file with the following settings.

[joystick]
joysticktype=fcs
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=true

You can then use CTRL + F1 shortcut to remap the keys, I set my Xbox Controller DPad to arrow keys and it worked after.

Another tip is you can use F5 while in map mode to save the game in slots from 1-9.

In other news I added a couple of more basic gift certificates to GiftTemplate.

Business Gift Certificate 07

Business Gift Certificate 08

Also this blog is now over 10 years old, I'm not even sure why I started it but I guess just to document Linux stuff back in the day.