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Janet Wilder[_1_] Janet Wilder[_1_] is offline
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Default My Firefox got "upgraded" to er 3.6.4, and now I can't get toGoogleGroups with it!

Stu wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:32:39 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
> > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>> John Kuthe > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Peter! I cleared EVERYTHING and now ,y Firefox works again to
>>>> get to GoogleGroups.
>>>>
>>>> I'm posting with my Firefox now!
>>> If cookies were your problem, set FF to accept them for the session
>>> only. It clears cookies when you close the program.

>> The problem with clearing cookie when reading through google groups is
>> google stores your group preferences in the cookies. Every time the
>> cookies are cleared every subscribed group goes back to the default
>> behavior. I have to set each group to view-as-a-tree and so on again.
>>
>> That's a lot of extra work using google as my secondary newsreader.
>> It was far too much work when I travelled enough to use it as my primary
>> reader.

>
> Try free Agent v a32-1.91 or 1.92 , they're older but work well with
> XP and Vista, probably even System 7.
> If you can't find them, I can send you both versions if you'd like.


I have not found the Agent newsreader to be friendly.

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