font problem in Fedora 10/Thunderbird

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert Singleton wrote:
> I just installed Fedora 10 (from FC7) on a Toshiba laptop. When reading 
> email in Thunderbird, the fonts now look rather weak and frail and are 
> rather hard to read. When composing email the fonts are just fine. This 
> is probably pretty simple to fix, but I've looked on FAQ's high and low 
> and can't find the problem. Also, I have tried changing settings in 
> Edit>Preferences>Display, and this too does not work.  If this post is 
> off topic (i.e. a thunderbird post) then my apologies. Thanks in advance 
> for any help you can provide.
> 
I have dropped TBird since Seamonket-2.0alpha was available, but I would suspect 
in preferences there's a checkbox called something like "let messages set their 
own fonts," and you have it ON. If someone posts using a bizarre font or size it 
will bypass the default you set.

This is a wild-ass guess and may not reflect your problem, but it's easy to check.

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