Mozilla Firefox Question

[Capetonian]

I wonder if someone can help with this. If I copy a link from Google News using Firefox and paste it into an email the result looks like this :

news.google.co.uk/news/url?sa=t&ct2=uk%2F10_0_s_3_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHEht13oeiAkbgyp****j_t2u0Q5A&sig2=6lwmI4xLkodfNaefnjgSBg&cid=17593688296980&ei=7J5IS-jxMJKEjAes6sPiAw&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2Fengland %2Fkent%2F8449813.stm (I took away the http bit as otherwise Pprune converts it.

But on IE like this.

BBC News - Eurostar still affected by snow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8449813.stm)

This may sound a bit picky but I prefer using Firefox, however for one of my clients I pick up various news items and email them across. Itm ay just be a setting on FF but I can't find it.

[Lancelot37]

You could go to www.tinyurl.com (http://www.tinyurl.com) Paste your link on their site and a box opens up with a shortened version of the link. It won't do what IE does though.

[Capetonian]

Thanks Lancelot, tinyurl is a great help often but not in this case, as I want the links to look like this BBC News - Eurostar still affected by snow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8449813.stm) so that they can decide whether to open it or not.

I can just go back to using IE for this purpose, it's just a little frustrating that FF is better in most ways than IE but just has this one little irritation in this very specific purpose.

Cheers anyway.

[Capot]

Forgive me if this is a total change of subject...

After downloading the latest FF (3.5.5) all I get with a PDF download (from the EASA site, for example) is a string of characters, in a new window, instead of the PDF document.

Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed/got wrong?

[rans6andrew]

if you use the Mozilla Thunderbird mail tool the task is trivial. To paste a link into an email you you click "insert", then click "link" and a form opens. You then put whatever text you like into the first box and paste the full link into the second box. The text in first box appears in the text of the email, as a link (underlined etc) and the second box is the actual address that it links to. Easy Peasy.