When composing an email in Thunderbird, I am no longer able to easily change the text color, whether it be selecting the color first and then typing, or selecting the text and then choosing a color. Pulling up Apple’s Color Picker and choosing a color was all I had to do previously. Now it is not working. Here is what does and does not work: Thunderbird > Toolbar > Formatting Bar > Choose color for text > Choose a color > I select a color and the ‘Choose a color’ bar turns that color, but no other color box changes to that color, nor does my selected text in the email. (This method does not work.) Thunderbird > Toolbar > Formatting Bar > Choose color for text > Last-picked color > does work Thunderbird > Toolbar > Formatting Bar > Choose color for text > Enter an HTML color string (e.g.: “0000ff” or “blue”) > does work Thunderbird > Toolbar > Formatting Bar > Font, Bold, Italics, Underline, Larger, Smaller, etc. > does work ----------------- Below is information that I assume will be useful: As an example, I composed an email to myself. I have attached a screenshot. I also attached a screenshot of that email’s source code. Apple’s Color Picker works fine in other applications MacOS v. 10.11.6 Thunderbird v. 68.4.2 (64-bit) Thunderbird > Account Settings > Composition & Addressing > Compose messages in HTML formatting > checked Thunderbird > Account Settings > Attach the signature from a file instead (text, HTML, or image) > unchecked Thunderbird > Extension & Themes > Extensions > All add-ons have been disabled by safe made Thunderbird > Extension & Themes > Themes > Default Thunderbird > Preferences > Display > Colors > Use system colors > unchecked Thunderbird > Preferences > Display > Colors > Override the colors specified by the content with my selections above: > Only with High Contrast Themes Thunderbird > Preferences > Composition > General > HTML > Font: > Variable Width Thunderbird > Preferences > Composition > General > HTML > Size: > Medium Thunderbird > Preferences > Composition > General > Use reader’s default colors > checked Thunderbird > View > Message Body As > Original HTML Thunderbird > Help > Troubleshooting information > Copy text to clipboard > see below -------------------------------------------------------------- Application Basics Name Thunderbird Version 68.4.2 Build ID 20200123140255 Update Channel release User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.2 OS Darwin 15.6.0 Multiprocess Windows 0/0 Disabled Remote Processes 0 Enterprise Policies Inactive Google Location Service Key Missing Google Safebrowsing Key Missing Mozilla Location Service Key Missing Safe Mode true Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days Report ID Submitted Remote Processes Type Count Extensions Name Version Enabled ID Amazon.com 1.1 true amazondotcom@search.mozilla.org Bing 1.0 true bing@search.mozilla.org DuckDuckGo 1.0 true ddg@search.mozilla.org Google 1.0 true google@search.mozilla.org Twitter 1.0 true twitter@search.mozilla.org Wikipedia (en) 1.0 true wikipedia@search.mozilla.org Lightning 68.4.2 false {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} Manually sort folders 2.0.2 false tbsortfolders@xulforum.org Security Software Type Name Antivirus Antispyware Firewall Graphics Features Compositing Basic Asynchronous Pan/Zoom none WebGL 1 Driver WSI Info - WebGL 1 Driver Renderer WebGL is currently disabled. 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