I, like all users, spend most of my T'bird time composing; we need a credible text editor ... when?
MS Outlook uses Word as its text editor, and aside from the fact that Outlook in general is a bit clumsy, it's a joy to compose an email. Why can't Thunderbird engage a proper test editor (paid option, perhaps) to free us from the only really bad feature of an otherwise fine product?
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A hoy that makes my life anything but with people here all the time with virus alerts, mails that do not forward or simply do not display correctly. All because Outlook uses a word processor to compose mails that it fills with Microsoft Word proprietary rubbish that send anti virus programs and real HTML programs into a spin. Microsoft gave their customers what they asked for an be damned about the rest. Unfortunately the customer is not always right, even if they think so, and the result is mail is a lot further from a homogeneous standards based thing than ever. It is almost to the point that you have to have a Microsoft client to read mail from a Microsoft client, an Apple client to read mail from an apple client and then there is everyone else.
Undoubtedly Thunderbird composer needs work, but it will never be a word processor. Your writing HTML for the web. therefore fonts are very limited, as are sizes. anything that pretends otherwise is just making a fool of you and your recipients.