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On a post from Leo Soto, he explains how to setup Gmail under Firefox with fixed with fonts or monospaced fonts. I’ve extended that trick to allow the same behaviour under many Google products. I’m currently using it to display fixed with fonts in Gmail and Google Groups, for both on the message body and text editor.

My current fragment of my userContent.css, located at my profile directory for Firefox, usually ~/.mozilla -> firefox -> profile_name -> chrome, is as follows:

/* gmail fonts */
@-moz-document domain(mail.google.com)
{
    .gs .ii, textarea.dV {
        font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter" !important;
        font-size: 8pt !important;
    }

    .editable , .editable * {
        font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter" !important;
        font-size: 8pt !important;
    }

    .tr-field, .editable * {
        font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter" !important;
        font-size: 8pt !important;
    }

}

/* google groups fonts */
@-moz-document domain(groups.google.com)
{
    textarea, textarea * {
        font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter" !important;
        font-size: 8pt !important;
    }

    textarea.wdth100, textarea.wdth100 * {
        font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter" !important;
        font-size: 8pt !important;
    }

    textarea.padall5, textarea.padall5 * {
        font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter" !important;
        font-size: 8pt !important;
    }
}

Editing mail in fixed with fonts is great, mainly for code an similar tasks. The problem with variable with fonts is the fact that you can not setup the proper spacing or line with in chars while you are trying to preserve the Netiquete. Sorry, and you can call me old, but I still think that those rules must apply to electronic communications. Also, the Netiquete was standarized: "RFC1855 – Netiquette Guidelines".