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Default My Firefox got "upgraded" to er 3.6.4, and now I can't get to GoogleGroups with it!

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.
>

You click on "view as tree". What's so hard about that?

> 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.


I don't use Google as my primary news reader or email reader because
both leave a lot to be desired. Gmail is set to forward into my isp's
inbox and I read email with Eudora7.

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