310950 - hard-coded background color (html email) with no fg color pulls default fg color, but should be hard-coded black.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

I'm not usually a fan of hard-coded color schemes, but since I use a
light-on-dark OS theme, it's extremely painful to read stuff that people send
with a hard-coded white background.  In this case, it really should be
appropriate for tbird to use a hard-coded black color (which is what the sender
assumes), rather than the default OS color or the whitish color I've chosen in
tbird for reading text-only emails.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I think I've seen this problem, or a variation, reported in an earlier bug, but I can't locate it now.

A workaround: if you encounter a message that's hard to read, open the "about:config" options, find browser.display.use_document_colors and set it False, then reload the message.  Or, use  View | Message Body As | Simple HTML.

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.