I meant .., I don't push those buttons out of fear of what it does, so I do nothing.

I meant .., I don't push those buttons out of fear of what it does, so I do nothing.

I find no working resolution for changing colors on fonts as we are writing an email, designing a template, etc. etc. Means --TBird has been DOWNGRADED with this so-called up-grade. And, so many people complaining but NO proper actions by TBird/Mozilla!. EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL!!

It is rather amazing, that after allllll these people reporting this ridiculous problem .. Mozilla is NOT on this matter, and fixing it!! HOW long does it take for them to wake up and resolve the mess they made??

I just downloaded TB 68.4.1 (for Mac). No improvement to the font color selection UI. Here is what I have to do to change font color:

1. Click on the font color selection button at the top of the email composition window

2. Click on the "Choose a color" field. (The MacOS color selection window pops up)

3. At the top of the color selection window, click on the color selection mode that I want to use.

4. Perform whatever clicking, sliding, backflips and somersaults that are necessary to choose the color I want in the particular color selection mode that I am using.

5. After I have selected the color I want, click to close the MacOS color selection window. (This is the key step that I wasn't doing before.)

6. Click OK in the TB color selection window.

This sequence of steps seems to work reliably. But it sure is a LOT of steps just to change a font color. I have to agree with all of the other posters that this is a big step backward in the TB UI.

It's working better for me. Sometimes if the color picker is open, you need to close it first.

I don't think it's 100% fixed, but as someone else wrote above (thanks for that!), this is a partial workaround.

HTH

I’m on a Mac and have followed all the suggestions over and over again, however , even when it shows say, blue on the email body ( text box) that you are typing it writes as black and the colour choice reverts to black.

I also have followed the exact instructions and even though the colour shows whatever new colour I have chosen, the existing reply text is now in some hideous blue. Cannot change ti all all. Does it make a difference that we are running thunderbird with dark enabled? It shouldn't make a different but i thought I would at least ask the question.

In my example, I followed the video submitted showing someone changing their colour, in my case after following the exact steps the font colour stays the same weird blue colour.

I have attached an example screenshot. The email before I hit 'reply' has normal white text - it changes only when I 'reply'

Please help! thanks!

My solution was to start using SeaMonkey. I can make all the color changes I want just like the old days. When Thunderbird fixes the issue, I'll come back. But I don't have any pop boxes, so all my email just came up after I figured out how to set the server addresses... If you have mail on your computer only, you'll have a separate challenge of importing it o SeaMonkey.

I agree with most of the posts in this forum.

It is hard to imagine an email program as sophisticated as Thunderbird 68.8.1 (32-bit) not being able to allow colored words in the text of an email.

The simplest word processors (not counting Notepad) are capable of selecting colors for individual words in a body of text.

There is not a 'Choose a color:' box in Windows 7 which tells me version 68.8.1 is not written to work with 7. Are Window 8 and Windows Vista (not to mention my 1 each Windows 2000 computer) considered garbage now?

I had such high hopes for switching to Thunderbird.