Thunderbird insists on showing quoted text in the composition window
as dark navy on black, visible only when highlighted. The settings
say that it's bright red on black, but no matter what settings I set,
it's still dark navy. I've tried closing and re-opening the program
after changing the settings, and I've tried rebooting the whole
computer: no soap.

So I thought the solution was to copy the post into a text editor,
edit it, and copy it back.

Finally, I wrote an email complex enough that it was worth my while to
try it.

When I copy text that I'm writing, my habit is to use control-X
followed by control-V, so that I can see that the keys have actually
engaged; it's annoying to navigate to another program only to find old
data or no data on the clipboard.

Doing this removed the highlighting on the quoted material and I could
see to write just fine without bothering to open another program.

(Re-wrap puts the quote coloring back.)

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Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

On 3/31/24 10:02 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
>
>
> Thunderbird insists on showing quoted text in the composition window
> as dark navy on black, visible only when highlighted. The settings
> say that it's bright red on black, but no matter what settings I set,
> it's still dark navy. I've tried closing and re-opening the program
> after changing the settings, and I've tried rebooting the whole
> computer: no soap.
>
> So I thought the solution was to copy the post into a text editor,
> edit it, and copy it back.
>
> Finally, I wrote an email complex enough that it was worth my while to
> try it.
>
> When I copy text that I'm writing, my habit is to use control-X
> followed by control-V, so that I can see that the keys have actually
> engaged; it's annoying to navigate to another program only to find old
> data or no data on the clipboard.
>
> Doing this removed the highlighting on the quoted material and I could
> see to write just fine without bothering to open another program.
>
> (Re-wrap puts the quote coloring back.)
>
I made a userContent.css in the chrome folder and put these lines in there. Navy on pastel pink.
It's got contrast for sure. You could make that black on white or yellow on black. You pick.

/* Quoted text colour for plain text */
span[_moz_quote="true"] {
color: navy !important;
background-color: mistyrose !important; }

pre[_moz_quote="true"] {
color: navy !important;
background-color: mistyrose !important;
} --
Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6.0.4 Kernel 6.5.0-26-generic
Al

Joy Beeson wrote:

> Thunderbird insists on showing quoted text in the composition window
> as dark navy on black, visible only when highlighted. The settings
> say that it's bright red on black, but no matter what settings I set,
> it's still dark navy.

What TB version?

Quoted text is a "normal" blue on white here, if you test with a fresh
blank profile what do you get?