407149 - Compose window does not always honor font selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250539

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ryan Daly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

When composing a new message, or replying to a message, the font selections I have are not honored all of the time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Replying to a message

1. Open a message
2. Start a reply
3. Note the font selection (in my case, this is sans-serif).
4. Without typing a character, move the cursor (with the right or down arrow keys).
5. Note the font selection change to "Variable Width".

2) Composing a new message

1. Start a new message
2. Enter To: and move to the body of the message.
3. Without typing, move the cursor to the right or down.
4. Note the font selection change.

3) During composition of new message

1. Start a new message
2. Start typing.  Font selection should be honored.
3. Add a bullet and/or a numbered list.
4. Font selection changes to variable width.
Actual Results:  
Font selection changes to variable width.

Expected Results:  
Font selection should honor user selection.