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On two occasions I have tried to click on web site addresss emailed to me. Instead of connecting me, Firefox's address box simply reads "go to a website."

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jimboyd15
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An email from the Pacific Flyway Decoy Collectors newsletter editor contained an address to view the newsletter. When I clicked on it all I saw in the Firefox address box at the top of my screen was "Go to a Web Site". Just a few moments ago the same thing happened when I clicked on address sent by American Century Investments that was supposed to connect me with a report about one of the company's mutual funds.otice as an address, but nothing else happened.

An email from the Pacific Flyway Decoy Collectors newsletter editor contained an address to view the newsletter. When I clicked on it all I saw in the Firefox address box at the top of my screen was "Go to a Web Site". Just a few moments ago the same thing happened when I clicked on address sent by American Century Investments that was supposed to connect me with a report about one of the company's mutual funds.otice as an address, but nothing else happened.

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David McRitchie
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I take it that these to are exceptions and that you can read most sites.

One is a decoy site, one could be a decoy site (sorry about the puns).

I'd be a bit leery about clicking on any link from a bank purporting to be my bank, and I would go to the actual bank site myself using my own bookmark rather than clicking on a link.

I've not run across what you say, they could be JavaScript links, which would be unusual, I think, in email. I'd bring up the headers and details, but how you do that depends on what you are using to view your email, and whether you can read/understand the links depends on whether you have some knowledge of HTML coding. Possibly the links use Active-X and expect your browser to be IE, and if you can't read the source a lot more cause for concern.

jimboyd15
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Thanks for the reply although I don't find it particularly useful since I am basically a computer illiterate. When I click on an address I just want Firefox to find it and display it. Period. Having Firefox display "Go to a Web Site" or something similar in the address box is just annoying. I figured when I first encountered the problem that it was an error in the address I had been given by the organization's newsletter editor. When the same thing happened today with a list of addresses provided by my mutual fund, I figured the problem is Firefox's to correct. (I suppose I should try to open those addresses using the Safari program I got with my IMac.) Anyway, thanks for the help.