I have a grey background in the preview text area and the compose window. From what I can see this only affects non-html mails, i.e. html mails display the colors set in edit->preferences->display (by the way, just noted that the title bar when opening the preference window is "Options", should that not be "Preferences" instead?) The rpm changelog says: * Wed Mar 23 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> 1.0.2-1.3.1 - Thunderbird 1.0.2 - Enable pango rendering So, has this something to do with pango? Or linc (mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143060) Where to find linc by the way? Can't seem to find it anywhere (updates and rawhide) Anyone have an idea on how to get the white background back? Perhaps editing the chrome/userContent.css file? Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/