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Old 15th Dec 2018, 19:16
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bbc news on firefox just GONE.

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
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/t...eb/flash_block

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Old 15th Dec 2018, 21:43
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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]]>
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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/mo...-from-firefox/

I never used them myself and apparently very few people did.
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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/fir...=windows&q=rss
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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.
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