Ad blockers and script blockers. There was one instance it was a plug in from a security suite but here I don't see any details to point to this or that.
Robert, I tried to reply to your answer about my Firefox profile, but the reply button doesn't do anything. Two different browsers, same result. Yet with other threads the reply button works fine. Why won't it work in my thread? I don't see any indication that the thread got locked.
BTW, I looked for the profile folder to delete it, but it didn't seem to exist after I uninstalled the program. But obviously something got left behind, so I'll try again and look after I re-install the program, and I'll let you know what happened.

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