View Full Version : bbc news on firefox just GONE.
Loose rivets
15th Dec 2018, 19:16
I'm not the only one, it happened after FF ???? Quantum turned up
I use it n times a day. I want it back, but nothing on google helps
Saab Dastard
15th Dec 2018, 21:06
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/troubleshooting/web/flash_block
BBC - HTML5 Player (http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5)
I'm not the only one, it happened after FF ???? Quantum turned up
I use it n times a day. I want it back, but nothing on google helps
Not sure what you mean by BBC News gone? I am using the most recent version of Firefox on Windows 10 and the BBC News website displays perfectly well.
Loose rivets
15th Dec 2018, 21:32
Most searches for BBC show plenty of accessible routes to the news, but none give the list as a drop-down of simple one liner links.
Even the Bookmarks folder has neatly been removed from where it's been for years.
Loose rivets
15th Dec 2018, 21:37
Saab, sorry, I did look at your sites and at my Add ons etc. What I can't seem to do is run a test of Flash player. Odd.
PJD1 I had a bookmark which took me to a BBC dropdown menu that listed world news as one line links. It would mark those read with a highlighted image on the left.
I can get BBC news in all kinds of formats, but I could check 50 or so items for interest with a moment's glance.
I have had to reinstate this before, but I just found it with a google search and bookmarked it. Simple as that.
It's as though that service has been removed, but with it, FF's function of bookmarking it.
Loose rivets
15th Dec 2018, 21:43
This is from a site where people are beset with the same problem. However, I get this far and after that the subject becomes circular.
<![CDATA[BBC News - Home]]> (http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml#)
Ah I think you are referring to live bookmarks and RSS feeds, these have indeed been removed from Firefox, see the article here https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/mozilla-plans-to-remove-rss-feed-reader-and-live-bookmarks-support-from-firefox/
I never used them myself and apparently very few people did.
There are quite a few RSS feed add-ons available for Firefox that might give you the functionality you are looking for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?platform=windows&q=rss
Loose rivets
15th Dec 2018, 22:33
That looks like bad news for me. My hearing was severely damaged c 2 years ago and catching news items on FF was a godsend.
I've looked at RSS feeds and just kind of given up. So much time is lost on issues like this. Medical issues have seen my Quora reads take a nosedive and that had promised to be a source of income - much to my surprise.
My wife and I spent teatime discussing early operating systems and word processors. We made a chunk of change making PCs do wonderful things with DOS. Display write 2 is more in my era.
I can see that the facility was a high maintenance issue but I find it hard to believe it wasn't used much. Ho-hum.