Losing contrast and fonts in Thunderbird.

I usually keep my 20" iMac at 1680 x 1050. but there are times when I need to drop it down a notch to 1344 x 840. When I do all the text in my Safari, e.g., becomes very fuzzy. I realize it's at lower resolution but it seems that there should be a way to sharpen it a bit.
I also noticed today that when I switched back to 1680 x 1050 the contrast between regular fonts and bold fonts seems to have dropped, the bold seems too light.
I noticed the difference between normal and bold fonts in my mail reader, I use Thunderbird. I also noticed that my Thunderbird was missing the complete list of fonts I have loaded. This happened once before and restarting brought back the fonts and the contrast.
Any idea as to why this would happen or is this better discussed in a Thunderbird group?
Thanks, Rob

In the +good ol'+ days of CRTs (I actually still use a 21-inch flat-screen CRT), you could vary the size each pixel on the screen. Therefore, when you changed the resolution, the image stayed sharp.
With LCDs, the physical size of each pixel is fixed. Therefore, it is only really sharp at the native resolution. For the 20" iMac, it's 1680 x 1050. When you use a lower resolution, the system fudges the pixels to approximate the new resolution, but since it cannot change the size of each physical pixel on the screen, it will be fuzzy.
I don't use Thunderbird, but you may want to run the +Font Book+ application and see if those fonts got disabled for some reason.
Also, if you have not done it recently, run Disk Utility and use the +Repair Disk Permissions+ routine on your startup volume.

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