The closed caption under youtube videos are not white. They are greyish.
For some reason, xgamma wasn’t installed, I installed it, but the same issue exists.
That looks more like transparency to me on close examination. Maybe something set in your browser? (Which one?) … is it the same with a different browser?
EDIT:
Click the Settings (Gear) icon on the playback window, click Subtitile/CC, then in the box that opens click Options (in the top right).
There, you can experiment with contrast, transparency etc…
I’m looking for a way to save changes for all videos, as this only affects the current one (or maybe current tab?).
Firefox, in Chromium it is white. hmmm not even sure what setting in FF would do that? That would be a odd setting, why would any one want it. They have been white before, I did nothing, as far as I know.
It’s definitely an odd one. In my Firefox, subtitles show correctly.
Those settings I pointed out, it seems there isn’t an obvious way to permanently set them in the YouTube configuration, but as you say, why did it change in the first place?
Does it happen on every video in Firefox, or just certain ones? Also, I’d be interested to know the results of any tweaks you make.
As far as Youtube, all videos. Hmmm, I founs thia Youtube Captions does not work. | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support, mybe my adblocker, but it hasn’t always done it & in Windows I have it, no issues. I couldn’t read it. I am bright sensitive & dark mode doesn’t work on that page. Nope, not that, shut it off on youtube same thing. Maybe a reinstall, I won’t loose my settings, will I?
I wouldn’t go to that extreme, it’s a settings issue somewhere and apparently not system-wide. But if you do reinstall and keep those settings, you’ll be back at square one. (I assume a separate /home partition?).
Nope, /home is not its own partition. I meaqnt reinstall firefox, could it be a setting in the OS, I wouldn’t think so/ Hmmm, I have no idea where the setting would be, if there was one.
Ah, I see. Thing is, when I see the word “reinstall” it usually refers to the OS itself.
What I’d do with Firefox is run with a fresh user profile. One way of doing this is to rename ~/.mozilla to e.g. ~/.mozilla.old and then Firefox will start with an empty profile when you next run it. (Close all running Firefox instances first).
You can later copy configs to from the old one to the new, one at a time, and you’ll likely see which one is causing the issue.
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Thanks, a lot.
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You are welcome! 
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Odd, now the menu bar doesn’t match my window decorations. No big deal really.
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