not sure if this would be a dup or cause of bug 72464... found using 2001.03.20.08 mozilla bits on linux. nbaca, could you see if this also occurs on win32 and mac? thx! 1. open Preferences dialog, go to Message Display panel. 2. in the Plain Text Messages section, open up the color picker for Color and change the setting --eg, i went from the default color to red. 3. either: switch to another pref panel, or click OK to save and dismiss the prefs dialog. 4. if you switched the panel, return to Message Display. if you dismissed the dialog, reopen it and go to Message Display. result: Color setting is unchanged.

btw, other color picker settings in prefs work fine [ie, those in the Colors panel and the Composer > New Page Settings panel].

Build 2001-03-19-12: NT4 Build 2001-03-19-10: Mac 9.04 I reproduced the problem on windows and mac. Setting QA Contact to Esther and changing Platform to All.

reproduced on linux also, marking all. Other color prefs are working, maybe check the usage in mail pref code? Something may have shifted below the surface.

marking nsbeta1- and adding nscatfood+

Please fasten your seatbelts ...

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This is also a KW: *4xp* issue.

From looking at it, it seems to me as if the pref widget is not hookekd up to the color picker. Source is at mailnews/base/pref/resource/content/pref-viewing_messages.xul.

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Workaround. 1- close all instances of mozilla 2- open the file "panacea.dat" AND "pref.js" in a text editor 3- find and change the quoted text colour "user_pref("mail.citation_color", "#RRGGBB");" with the proper hexadecimal value. 4- save the files and restart mozilla

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7 months and 9 duplicates later, in a build far, far away ...

Can I get some r/sr action on this little one-liner?

r=mcafee

Comment on attachment 55142 [details] [diff] [review] Fix -- make us obey the quoted color pref again sr=sspitzer thanks hwaara.

Comment on attachment 55142 [details] [diff] [review] Fix -- make us obey the quoted color pref again R=ducarroz

Fix checked in.

Using 20011203 trunk builds on win, mac and linux verified fixed.