Thunderbird: possible to change selected email highlight color (when no focus)?

Is it possible to change, in the message list of Thunderbird 3.0, the highlight color of the selected message when the list does not have the focus?

The highlight color for the selected row is blue when the list has the focus, this is very clear. But when the list does not have the focus (e.g. after when you click in the message preview area), the highlight color is dark grey. However, this dark grey doesn't really stand out against the alternating row highlighting in the list (at least not on my laptop's LCD screen), making it difficult for me to quickly locate the message I've selected.

So, any way to change this dark grey highlighting?

Solution 1:

to change the color of the selected row in thunderbird

create a file named

userChrome.css

in the directory

%Appdata%\Thunderbird\Profiles\ {profile_dir} \chrome

with following content (replace #FFD445 and #000000 with your favored color):

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");

#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-row(selected) {
background-color: #FFD445 !important;
}

#threadTree treechildren:-moz-tree-cell-text(selected) {
color: #000000 !important;
}