There seem to be quite a few bug entries revolving around this problem of being able to switch between HTML and plain text.
While I cannot offer a patch to fix it, maybe I can help with a list of the related bugs I came across?
- bug 78794 (Message Compose HTML toolbar is not displayed, when "Edit Message as New")
- bug 130508 (Edit message as new ignores my non-html settings)
- bug 140800 (switch for plain text/html in compose window)
- bug 229117 (Have tabs to toggle between Plain text/HTML modes)
- bug 321784 (add a more visible possibility to compose an HTML message)
- bug 323867 (Allow changing sent plaintext mail to HTML with "Edit As New")
There are many more which are marked as duplicates of one of the above.
There seem to be quite a few bug entries revolving around this problem of being able to switch between HTML and plain text.
While I cannot offer a patch to fix it, maybe I can help with a list of the related bugs I came across?
- bug 78794 (Message Compose HTML toolbar is not displayed, when "Edit Message as New")
- bug 130508 (Edit message as new ignores my non-html settings)
- bug 140800 (switch for plain text/html in compose window)
- bug 229117 (Have tabs to toggle between Plain text/HTML modes)
- bug 321784 (add a more visible possibility to compose an HTML message)
- bug 323867 (Allow changing sent plaintext mail to HTML with "Edit As New")
There are many more which are marked as duplicates of one of the above.