Fonts in message area too small to read in Thunderbird

Question

I use Thunderbird as my email client. For some reason fonts in the message area are so small that they are unreadable. This includes the Thunderbird welcome screen font.

Solution 1

Go to Edit-Preferences->Display->Advanced and then change the Minimum Font Size to something bigger than 10 (depends on how big you like them to be)

This worked on my system.

Solution 2

Have you tried Edit->Preferences->Display and change default font,font size there

Solution 3

Press Control++ on the message as many times as needed to zoom in on the text.

Solution 4

There's many fonts in Edit->Preferences->Display, you should setup fonts size for each type you're using (unicode, western, cyrillic etc.)

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Comments

[thomasrutter]

Could you, or anyone else reading this, add a screenshot to give people an idea of what this problem looks like?

[RamoneDexter]

yeah tried that already didn't work

[RamoneDexter]

hey! that actually worked! i thought I'd tried it already but i guess not. thanks :)

[web.learner]

Is this still up-to-date?