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How to change the color of Thunderbird text

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I view Thunderbird meswsages on a black background with white text, works well for my vision problems, however T-bird displays quoted text, e.g. joe@xxx.com, in dark blue which I can't read unless highlighted using a hand magnifier! Does anyone know how to change that color? I would be happy if everything was displayed in bold white text, the colors are without benefit "to me anyway."

posted Sep 12, 2013 by Anderson

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Edit --> Preferences --> Display --> Formatting

Under 'Plain Text Messages', there is an option to change the colour for 'When displaying quoted plain text messages'

answer Sep 12, 2013 by Sonu Jindal
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Does the Thunderbird extension "Quote Colors" do what you want?

answer Sep 12, 2013 by Jagan Mishra
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