Mark forum as read thingy stopped working

I clicked on delete board cookies (I don't know why,) it seemed like a good idea at the time
Now the mark board as read thingy won't work .
I'm using Mozilla browser if that means anything.
Help please

Alice:

It may be that your browser setting has changed, and cookies have been disabled...

Are you using Firefox, or the old Mozilla? If you are still using the old Mozilla, it is worth changing to Firefox and Thunderbird, that may do the trick straight away...

With Firefox, go to:

"Extras"
- "Settings"

In the window which appears, select "Security" in the left field, a list of parameters will appear in the right field, one of which will be cookies. Expand that, and you can set the necessary settings there to allow cookies.

Mine works fine with:

"Accept cookies" enabled
"Only from the original website" disabled
"Retain cookies" "as long as they are valid"

The wording may be slightly different, as I have translated back from German. As far as I remember, the old Mozilla is similar, just layed out slightly differently. "Settings" in the file menu, then find cookies...

The on-board help will guide you through on both, though..

If that doesn't work, then you could try "Exceptions", I've had to enter one or other Website there for them to work, but BB works without.

Thanks Mike
Sorry it is the latest version of Firefox.
All the settings are already identical to whart you have described,I just checked.
I then went into exceptions and added it there but its still not working.
I have only started using this this week if I can't sort it out I will just have to go back to IE.
It's driving me up the wall

I didn't even know where to set cookies on the menu so I had a look on the Mozilla site and found these instructions.

1. Click on the Tools-menu in Mozilla/Firefox
2. Click on the Options... item in the menu - a new window opens
3. Click on the Privacy selection in the left part of the window. (See image below)
4. Expand the Cookies section.
5. Check the Enable cookies and Accept cookies normally checkboxes.
6. Save changes by clicking Ok and go to one of the configuration pages again

Checked my settings and they are all fine, never had any probelms with Firefox, don't go back to IE Alice that is a sure fire way of driving yourself completly round the bend

Thanks for trying to help Loopy,
I had a look again and it was set up like you say already.
But this time I deleted all the cookies and emptied the cache.
And it WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOrked
(no idea how or why I'm not terribly bright where computers are concerned)
Yipee
Thanks to both of you

Re IE I'm still not sure that from my perspective it feels like there is much difference between the two,
Maybe it has hidden features I haven't found yet

well it doesn't crash all the time which is always a good start! I swapped over when I kept getting runtime errors on the Guardian website... and don't even get me started on the problems I had with Outlook


I'm the same, if you play about long enough eventually something happens... of course this method is not very efficient if you need to repeat the procedure