User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.5 (20060719) I have html as my default message format but often send text-only emails. The only way to do this is by selecting the "send as text" pop-up. I know upfront by the to: domain when an email should be text, can we get an option to view it as it will be sent instead of using the HTML editor? The HTML default is the only way to include images inline, but the formatting of replies & fwds is terrible with vertical lines everywhere. To trim out irrelevant parts, eg for mailing lists, is awkward & ends up badly formatted. Reproducible: Always

try holding down the shift key when you click the write or reply button.

perfect, thankyou. How was I supposed know that? :)

(In reply to comment #2) > perfect, thankyou. How was I supposed know that? :) You could have started by searching for an earlier bug report, rather than making work for other people. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140800 ***

(In reply to comment #3) > You could have started by searching for an earlier bug report, rather than > making work for other people. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140800 *** > I did search first & found nothing relevant. 7 other duplicates - I might not have been the only one. The search doesn't check for synonyms, hopefully it does check the duplicates.