Thanks everyone. I got it resoved. Eventually I found the FF dialogue box hidden under the IE "Closing Down" warning. This time I ignored it and dragged it aside to discover FF was indeed downloading. I don't know why but That really doesn't matter anymore!
Dave W The Wassermans wrote: > I successfully downloaded Thunderbird and have been using it. IE closes > down when confronted with a subsequent attempt to download a dictionery > for Thunderbird. So I figured that I should download Firefox and use it > to download my requirements but IE jacks up at that too! > > I am sure that if I was in Ubuntu it would all work but I am still in > transition and want to use my Windows for a while. > > Anyone got an explanation? Solution? > > Dave W > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au