Mike Cloaked, nothing in the problem you're discussing has anything to do with "font style in prepopulated text," which is the main stated condition of this bug in the title. Not to defend the HTML editor, but your report does belong elsewhere.
It should be immediately obvious that the text "xyz wrote..." in an HTML reply does not follow the composition preferences. That wasn't part of the initial bug report here, however, and it's my fault for poorly re- summarizing this bug in 2007. The lack of preferred formatting on the attribution line should be a separate bug (and maybe it already is). In comment 7, I referred to bug 245581 comment 1, which describes the underlying problem for that bug and the primary symptom of this bug: text that I'm typing not following my font preferences. The original steps in comment 0 do not reproduce in TB 16.0.2 (Win7/64). However, the reported symptom is still easy to observe. Here are the STR, from comment 0, with only the fourth step modified slightly: 1. Launch app - set to reply above quoted text (default for commercial builds) 2. Change your mailnews preference for composition to another font style. 3. Click Reply to a message someone sent preferably with the default font style. 4. Start typing (note you will see your default style), backspace all the way to the left margin; press the Down arrow, followed by the Up arrow, and start typing again. Actually, the initial typing followed by backspace is not required. What is required is moving the cursor away from its initial position with an empty user-typed text body -- which is only achievable if there is some prepopulated text. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584632 Title: composer changes font mid email To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/584632/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
