Why are the number of upvotes on an answer sometimes blue?

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So far I have seen these colors for up voted answers:

Green background, Yellow text - Accepted Answer
Grey background, Dark Grey text - Normal Answer
Grey background, Blue text - ???

When the number of votes a question has is in blue, what does that signify?

Edit: I have seen this again today and I'm still not convinced it's a glitch.

I've also seen Green background, Blue text, but it went away upon a page refresh. — DeadHead, Commented Jul 8, 2009 at 17:42
If you see it again, could you provide a screenshot? I use Firefox on the SO sites and I don't know that I've seen this "glitch" before. — Jared Harley, Commented Aug 3, 2009 at 13:18
Whether or not it's a problem with Firefox or Stack Overflow itself doesn't really matter - it's still a glitch in the sense that it's not supposed to happen and doesn't mean anything. — Kyle Cronin, Commented Sep 5, 2009 at 13:05
Hmm, okay. If it isn't actually meant to mean anything I guess we can call this one case closed. — Sam Becker, Commented Sep 8, 2009 at 13:49

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:31:48Z

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It doesn't mean anything actually. It is just a bug in Firefox.

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answered Jul 8, 2009 at 17:59

jjnguy

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A bug... turns text blue?
– Sam Becker
Commented Jul 9, 2009 at 11:01
I guess...I'm just passing what I read along.
– jjnguy
Commented Jul 9, 2009 at 12:10
If the bug is in the way it renders CSS, then why not?
– Paul Tomblin
Commented Aug 3, 2009 at 14:53
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It's kinda weird how it's only on some elements. Is there something that makes just those turn blue but not the others?
– DisgruntledGoat
Commented Sep 8, 2009 at 14:54
That explains why I fruitlessly searched for it in IE. I was worried already about getting blind ...
– Joey
Commented Sep 15, 2009 at 9:33
Haha, yeah, it is only in Firefox.
– jjnguy
Commented Sep 15, 2009 at 13:52
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I've seen this so many times. I thought it had some meaning ^^
– marcgg
Commented Dec 22, 2009 at 11:46
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However, first of all this is a BUG of Stackoweflow in Firefox, not a Firefox bug in Stackoverflow... yeah.. :)
– serhio
Commented Jan 7, 2010 at 16:17
Still a bug in Firefox 3.5.7
– ChrisF Mod
Commented Jan 25, 2010 at 13:33

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