Windows 10 reached EOS (end of support) on October 14, 2025. If you are on Windows 10, see this article.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Rohkem teavet

How to toggle body text to a fixed lenght font with a single click ?

  • 1 vastus
  • 0 on selline probleem
  • Viimati vastas Lin
  • Open

Salon
Salon

Hello,

This would have been a reply to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1390397?utm_source=chatgpt.com which is one of the top google results for "Thunderbird make font fixed length addon"

Some html text is hard to read, I would like a button, to make it all one more readable font. (font override toggle button to variable lenth font) and a button to make it a fixed length font (font override toggle button to fixed lenth font) Maybe a button to also strip formatting like bold/italic/coloring etc..

The solution

Preferences > General > Language & Appearance > Fonts & Colors > Default font > Advanced > Font Control > Use fixed width font for plain text

Which is too deep into the setting to casually flip for one message and then bring back to normal. I don't want this forever, just when there's one hard to read email.

Hello, This would have been a reply to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1390397?utm_source=chatgpt.com which is one of the top google results for "Thunderbird make font fixed length addon" Some html text is hard to read, I would like a button, to make it all one more readable font. (font override toggle button to variable lenth font) and a button to make it a fixed length font (font override toggle button to fixed lenth font) Maybe a button to also strip formatting like bold/italic/coloring etc.. The solution Preferences > General > Language & Appearance > Fonts & Colors > Default font > Advanced > Font Control > Use fixed width font for plain text Which is too deep into the setting to casually flip for one message and then bring back to normal. I don't want this forever, just when there's one hard to read email.

All Replies (1)

Lin
Lin
  • Top 10 Contributor

The settings you cite are really intended to change the default viewing fonts. For quick changes on the fly, change the Message View to Plain Text instead of HTML. See menu item <View | Message Body As>.

I like an add-on called "Toggle HTML", that puts a button in the Toolbar that lets you cycle through the three Views without having to dig through the menu.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/toggle-html/

Küsimuse postitamine

You must log in to your account to reply to posts. Please start a new question, if you do not have an account yet.