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Thunderbird 128: Message body color

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morlop
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Dear all, Regardless of the theme in Thunderbird I choose, whenever I open a message the background color of the messages is light yellow, what is quite awful and often prevents some message from been read because of the lack of contrast.

I can't find a way to change that. Is there a way to change that, for instance by editing the contents of the XPI of the theme I use?

What should be the CSS code used for that? 

 thanks a ton for you attention!,

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Dear all, Regardless of the theme in Thunderbird I choose, whenever I open a message the background color of the messages is light yellow, what is quite awful and often prevents some message from been read because of the lack of contrast. I can't find a way to change that. Is there a way to change that, for instance by editing the contents of the XPI of the theme I use? What should be the CSS code used for that? thanks a ton for you attention!, best

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My settings in Settings/General/Lang. & Appearance, Colours, are shown in the first picture. I can make the message body background yellow by changing to the second picture. While it's possible to use css to change the colours, I suggest first trying to do this with the Colours options.

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My settings in Settings/General/Lang. & Appearance, Colours, are shown in the first picture. I can make the message body background yellow by changing to the second picture. While it's possible to use css to change the colours, I suggest first trying to do this with the Colours options.

morlop
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Thank a lot! By clicking Colors button there, selecting new colors and restarting Thunderbird the problem was solved!