{"id":50,"date":"2005-09-29T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:20:18","slug":"changing-the-link-colours-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/09\/changing-the-link-colours-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the link colours in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Mozilla Application Suite<\/a> allows the user to customize the colour of hyperlinks. This setting also affects email and newsgroup messages. However, because it is a browser setting, the options panel for it is not in Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a>. Once again, this is one of those things that you can change in Thunderbird, through hidden settings.<\/p>\n

The best way to do it, is using the AboutConfig extension<\/a>, who’s function will be part of the upcoming Thunderbird 1.5.
\nTo figure out what colours you want, open a message composition window in HTML mode. (If you see a toolbar that lets you change the font, size, colour, etc., you are in HTML mode. If not, hold down Shift<\/strong>, as you click on the Write<\/strong> icon.)
\nOpen the colour picker.
\n\"\"\/
\nPick the colour you want to use, and copy the HTML colour string, at the bottom.
\n\"\"\/
\nNow open AboutConfig [Tools -> about:config], and look for the setting browser.anchor_color<\/span>. Double-click on it, and change the value to the HTML colour string you copied earlier. Click OK<\/strong>, close the about:config window, and you’re done.
\nIf you ever want to change the setting back to the default<\/strong>, right-click on the setting in AboutConfig, and select Reset<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Some additional notes:
\nThe setting for unvisited links is browser.anchor_color<\/span>
\nThe setting for active links is browser.active_color<\/span>
\n(Since Thunderbird doesn’t have a browser history, there are no such thing as visited links in Thunderbird)<\/p>\n

You can also change these settings using a user.js file, as described here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mozilla Application Suite allows the user to customize the colour of hyperlinks. This setting also affects email and newsgroup messages. However, because it is a browser setting, the options panel for it is not in Mozilla Thunderbird. Once again,… <\/p>\n

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