Thunderbird text color -

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 13 September 2013, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia,
USA sent:
> There's probably no way to convince you that I have done all this 
> correctly but after going through these settings again very carefully 
> [backgrounds #000000, all others #ffffff] this morning in both 
> Thunderbird and Seamonkey the result is still dark blue quoted link 
> names in Thunderbird and black on black quoted link names in
> Seamonkey. 

I'm going to state the obvious, it may be this simple, particularly
regarding making files in your homespace, not the about:config changes:

Before making direct changes to configuration files, close the program
down completely, first.  Edit the files.  Start the program up again,
and see how your edits worked.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.