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How do I change a website address into a link which opens when clicked

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I now use Windows 7 OS and Firefox as my default browser. Previously, in Windows XP, when I entered a website address it automatically changed to a (HTML?) link and if you clicked the link you went straight to the relevant page on the website. I may not have added the relevant Plug-in or Add-on and this may be the reason I am having the problem. I would like to have a simple way of doing this and not some of the suggestion I found when trying to resolve this myself.

I see in Thunderbird that there is an Insert menu where I can do this very thing but I can;t find the Insert menu in Firefox.

I now use Windows 7 OS and Firefox as my default browser. Previously, in Windows XP, when I entered a website address it automatically changed to a (HTML?) link and if you clicked the link you went straight to the relevant page on the website. I may not have added the relevant Plug-in or Add-on and this may be the reason I am having the problem. I would like to have a simple way of doing this and not some of the suggestion I found when trying to resolve this myself. I see in Thunderbird that there is an Insert menu where I can do this very thing but I can;t find the Insert menu in Firefox.

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Which webmail site are you using (e.g., Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail)? Most of them will have a link icon next to the formatting icons above the area where you compose your message. For example, I attached an image showing where it is on Yahoo.

Do you still have access to or a backup of your XP system? If so, you could dig into the hard drive and see what add-ons (particularly extensions) you had installed before.

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I no longer have access to XP as my old computer is now dead and buried.

I have Firefox as my Default browser and use Google Chrome ocassionally. I have switched off Internet Explorer 9 as it kept opening up at random and nobody could tell me how to stop it happening. I have used Firefox as my only browser for over seven years (the age of my old Win XP computer) and only used explorer when my internet provider instructed me to do so when diagnosing connection problems. For some reason they did not support Firefx.

I use yahoo and another webmail and download all messages to Thunderbird which I have discovered has an Insert >Link option where you apply the Link to a highlighted text. This Insert menu option only appears when composing a message and does not seem to be on Firefox.

I am entering an address below to see if it appears as a clickable link. If it does then I only have to figure out how to get this to happen in other places where I communicate and need to post links. If it does not change then I hope someone on this Forum can provide the solution.


https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/939932#question-reply

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Problem solved!

Well, it seems that although the address does not change after writing it in your post, it does change to a blue clickable link AFTER posting it. I experimented in the previous post to prove this.

I shall have to try this in other Forums etc. I posted in anoher Forum and the website address did not change to a link.

Has anybody got any ideas about the Insert menu option which is in Thunderbird but not in Firefox. Maybe it is not needed anymore. I get a bit jittery when I see fewer menu options.

Cheers for now.

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Sorry but I forgot to thank you for the tip for Yahoo.

Thank you.

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On this forum, when you submit your post, the forum software reformats URLs (and even just a domain name such as mozilla.org) into links. But each web site handles your input in a different way, so I'm afraid there isn't a universal solution (unless someone has created an add-on that works on multiple sites).

On the receiving end, if you didn't make the URL into a link, the reader's mail software might do it. The inconsistency is a bit maddening.

For Yahoo specifically, the Insert Link button is the best approach.

For your other webmail, can you find a similar Insert Link button?

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Odabrano rješenje

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Thank you, I will try all of the above when I next post in a forum and need to use a link. If I remember correctly the last site I had problems inserting a link was in windows.