551141 - The infernal Times New Roman

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 514265

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Marc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.0.3

Thunderbird defaults to Variable Width text. In my humble opinion hardly anyone uses this ugly font type. But ok, you can change the default font to a fixed width font such as Arial. 

However, it is really hard to stick to fixed width as Thunderbird seems to "prefer" variable width. Example given, if I start a new mail and mail composition is still set to variable width, and I manually change the setting to Arial in the composition window; if I put the cursor at the end of the line I will be in variable width again. What's worse, it doesn't honour my default font size either and prefers an again ugly and uncommon "large" setting.

If I set default composition to Arial and I open a mail that has been sent in Variable width font, text again is in variable width.

What I would like is for Thunderbird to allow me to select Arial and ALWAYS use that when I'm typing, unless I manually select another font. Thunderbird right now works too much like the WYSIWYG HTML editors of old (and WP5.1 for that matter): clunky, switching to variable width all the time and basically not doing what you want.

Now I understand that the default renders probably like some kind of HTML default text. The point is: this is unwanted and not what you commonly need.

Cheers,

Marc

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

What do you mean ? Arial is variable width ... Courier is an example of a fixed width font.

The defaults are in Tools->Options->Composition->General. The choice between a html and a text message is in the "send Options" below.

Comment 2

[Marc]

Sorry, I switched the whole thing around. Whenever I say variable I man fixed and vice versa. I'll edit the report

Comment 3

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Marc,
Bug 250539 is about fonts changing when HTML elements are added.
Bug 514265 relates to fonts changing "as you type" or after you have repositioned
the cursor from some other spot in the composition.
Take a look at the screenshot in bug 514265.
This bug should probably be duped to that bug.

Comment 4

[Marc]

Yes ,looks like these bugs cover the issue

Comment 5

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

duped to bug 514265