This is a digitally heritical question. Received wisdom in the computer world is that the best viewing of text is black letters on a white background. Book printers learned centuries ago that off-white, or something like 'ivory', is much easier on the eyes, and you'll never find a book, ancient or contemporary, printed on white paper.

To me, the white backgrounds widely favored by web page designers is blinding. Is there some way to put a software-created graphical mask over my browser (Firefox) to cause all whites to become off-white? I know, it'll screw up graphics, but I don't care about that, I just don't want to have to see any more blinding pages.

Weird question, I guess, thanks for listening.

~ beau

PS I've reduced my monitor's brightness level to about 45%, but that effects non-white colors as well; ditto my physical anti-glare screen.

PPS I've configured my Windows Display settings with an eye-ease color (to me, anyway, I'm have a weak color sense and others may find it less soft) for document backgrounds

in firefox3 it's in Options, Content, Colors. and uncheck Allow Pages to choose their own colors.......... it's similar in all versions. in fact y'all can choose to use windows colors.

WOW!!! What a difference! A million thanks, Surfer, I've been dreaming about this for years -- for real!!!

y'all welcome