User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: 3.1 When you click Reply the compose window shows quoted text in blue (yuk!). If you then toggle mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width to "true" the quoted text then becomes white. It does not change quoted text colour as set under the Display options (mail.citation.color). I wich quoted reply text obey the quoted text setting - I hate blue! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width is "false" using the Config Editor 2. Reply to an email (quoted text is blue) 3. Change mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width to "true" and then Reply to a message. Actual Results: quoted text is white Expected Results: quoted text should (alas) be blue

This bug still affects the new Thunderbird 17.0.5. Indeed, if the sender is using quoted-printable with soft-breaks (like Apple Mail), or format=flowed, without using mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width=true the lines appears too long to be readed, because they go beyond the edge of the screen. For this reason the user have to set to "true" mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width, in order to able able to read the previous message properly in the composition window, especially in a proper quoted discussion. Neverthless, having the previous message not in blue (or, even better, with a different color for each message in a discussion), makes the composition more difficult. Is there someone who has traced the origin of this bug? How can it be fixed?

This is also present in Thunderbird 38 on OS X and Windows 7. To clarify, this bug only applies to the plain text compose editor window, not the HTML compose editor window. It's basically a duplicate of several other bugs. (In reply to BJ from comment #0) > When you click Reply the compose window shows quoted text in blue (yuk!). This is bug 152144. For a work-around, place the following in a file called userContent.css in a folder called chrome inside your profile folder: /* Change hard-coded blue colour of quoted text - see bug 152144 */ span[_moz_quote=true] {color: red !important;} ...change "red" to whatever colour you like, such as "green" or #9A9A9A. If you actually want it to be the same as the default text colour, change it to "inherit". However, the above still doesn't work if mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width is true. > If you then toggle mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width to "true" the quoted text > then becomes white. This is bug 233705. Actually it's changed from blue to whatever the default color set in Preferences--> Display--> Formatting--> Fonts & Colors--> Colors--> Text is, i.e. browser.display.foreground_color. Presumably the OP had theirs set to white, possibly through a dark theme. > It does not change quoted text colour as set under the Display options > (mail.citation.color). I wich quoted reply text obey the quoted text setting This is bug 758332, a request that Preferences--> Display--> Formatting--> Plain Text Messages--> Color (mail.citation_color) should also apply to the plain text compose editor. > - I hate blue! Me too!

This appears to be identical to bug 233705, in fact.