I think part of the issue for Fran is that she uses the Hotmail web email service (judging by her picture in the "I give up" thread).

I'm guessing that she views the Hotmail page as one tab of the Firefox browser and wants to open the ebot links in another tab. But they won't do so; they open in a new browser-instance instead. And I think the Hotmail display of the ebot-forum-link properties prevents Fran from copying 'n pasting the links into the address bar of a tab.

This is my interpretation of her problem from her various posts. She can hit me if I'm wrong. And no doubt will... ;-)

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