Thunderbird will not change text colours
I am running Tbird 142.0, iMac OS X Ventura 13.7.7 However, this problem has been going on for several versions of Tbird and Ventura, going back at least a year.
The problem: I cannot change text colour in a new message. The suggestions provided at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1477095 don't work: I am closing colour dialogs correctly and I cannot find a colour override setting, or anything that appears similar, in any Settings menu. The closest is Settings > Composition > HTML Style > Text Color which also has no effect.
Also, if I use an html file for a signature, Tbird ignores the color tag.
I have an older iMac running 10.13.6 and Tbird 78. Everything works there.
I am baffled! Suggestions much appreciated!
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wow!! thank you sfthowes! (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/sfhowes/)
for others: this solution from paul.hugo (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=263838) via sftnews (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/sfhowes/)
worked for me: "I figured out the color button and override in versions before 128 changes the config parameter browser.display.document_color_use. To make colors work before you had to set it to never which is a value of 1. Most of us probably had it set to never but with release 128, it changed it 0 which is "Only with High Contrast themes"
The workaround is to go to the config editor (settings => General, scroll to the very bottom on the right side) in the search bar enter color_u and you'll get the parameter browser.display.document_color_use. The value will probably be 0. Click on the pencil and change it to 1. (in my case, when I typed in a 1, the 1 didn't show until I saved it, (click the check)." (paul.hugo)
this has been driving me nuts for months! what a relief!!