[ale] Changing Thunderbird 1.5 font color.

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 07:10 -0400, Jim wrote:
> I just installed Thunderbird 1.5.  It has some nice features, but my old 
> eyes have trouble reading light gray on a white background.  I can't 
> seem to find a way to make the text of received messages darker.  Has 
> anyone unlocked the secret?

Cataract surgery :)

edit->preferences->display has options on forwarded text font color (and
for html) but no general text color for just normal messaging. What does
work is to change from fixed to variable font. It still leaves the
attached signature block in gray but at least the message body is in
black.

That's a pretty glaring omission of usability IMO. Thunderbird really
needs the ability to adjust the text to page contrast for visually
impaired support. There are a lot of things that OSS is lacking in that
area.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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