375627 - Problems with HTML Message Compose Default Text color

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alan Simmons]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.10 (20070221)

Changed the default text color once, now it is stuck on that color, also need to assign a hex value for the color.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. changed the default text color
2. try to write a message
3. then change the color to another color
Actual Results:  
the color in the color picker dialog is changed, but the text that is displayed when typing a new message is the old color of the first change

Expected Results:  
I expect to be able to change color of the default text as well as the other colors, links, visited linked, etc... in fact I should be able to specify a style sheet that has these defaults coded inside.

the software should have definitely let me input hex values for colors, although that option is not supported yet and is not considered a bug.

Comment 1

[Alan Simmons]

I am using a signature file.

Comment 2

[Alan Simmons]

restarting thunderbird seems to clear up stuck color setting, and i can then begin to write an email with the default color that was chosen in the color picker dialog.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070329 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0pre ID:2007032903

Tried a 2.0 rc?
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2.0.0.0-candidates>

Comment 4

[Luca Stucchi]

version 3.0a1pre (2008040302)
Windows XP SP2

Using 3.0a1pre this behavious can't be reproduced. Must have been already fixed.

Comment 5

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008080700 Shredder/3.0b1pre ID:2008080700