On 04/26/16 01:21, g wrote: <> > what i did find is 2 urls for mozilla site that i had forgotten about. they > did not show up in search of bookmarks because i did not tag them with > 'userchrome.css', the are now. > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bad_Eyesight_-_Thunderbird > http://kb.mozillazine.org/White_on_black_-_Thunderbird > > unfortunately, 'white on black' does not mention quoted bar and text. > ===> read above links. open thunderbird, make these changes to thunderbird's "about:config"; browser.display.background_color #000000 browser.display.foreground_color #FFFFFF browser.display.focus_text_color #FFFFFF editor.background_color #FFFFFF messagecompose.background_color #000000 msgcompose.text_color #FFFFFF close thunderbird. to change colors for 'quoted text', check for a file; /home/bob/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/chrome/userContent.css if present, add below. if not, create and add below; /* replace colored bars with ">" */ .moz-text-plain blockquote[type=cite] {color: white;} {border: none !important; padding: 0 !important;} /* Quoted text in plain-text replies */ span[_moz_quote=true] {color: white;} save file. open thunderbird, do you now have white on black for emails being read, composed, and replied to. yes|no|maybe? need to do some weed whacking in backyard. back in about 1 hr. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org