Apparently Google wants to break Gmail again: They switched off the old editor today for everyone and made their new editor (see this help page) mandatory which does top-posting and allows no fixed text font.
How can I get the old plain text editor back? I found no config option for that.
It cannot be disabled, but there is a great new extension (currently just for Chrome, more on the way apparently) that gives you the old compose UI experience back. It can be found here:
...or link to the Chrome webstore if you don't want to be coerced into tweeting/facebooking about it
I just tried it, and it seriously works :-)
Attached image is an example of something I just wrote....
Click on the arrow icon in the lower-right corner of the Compose window;
Choose Plain text mode form the menu.
As for switching back permanently to the old compose, it won’t be possible anymore:
Now that that option is available, we're saying farewell to the old compose and switching everyone to the new compose over the next few days.
