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My experience is that Chrome sometimes automatically links the URL for you,
other times it doesn't. Often if I simply force a carriage return right
after the URL, Chrome "gets it." Even when I then remove the extraneous
carriage return, the live link is retained.
If Chrome fails on all accounts, I highlight the URL text, copy it to the
Clipboard, click the link icon on the bottom toolbar, and then paste the
URL in resultant dialog box.
> Chris
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Sweet, Gregory (HEALTH) <
gregory -dot- sweet -at- health -dot- ny -dot- gov> wrote:
> Hi Monique,
>
> That's a complicated question. Is this a new problem? Were you previously
> able to use webmail in Chrome as you expected?
>
> If so, my wild-stab-in-the-dark is that the webmail app is using Java (an
> applet not js) or some other npapi plugin for which Chrome has recently
> dropped support.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Greg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > On Behalf Of Monique Semp
> > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 6:20 PM
> > To: TechWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> > Subject: browser conundrum - creating live links in Webmail ?
> >
> > Hello, TechWR-L-ers,
> >
> > Iâve got a very strange situation with my Webmail. (No, I donât need to
> use it
> > often, but sometimes I do.) If I use Chrome to write a message (in
> Earthlink
> > webmail), the URLs do not end up with their expected live hyperlinks.
> But if
> > use IE to write a message, from that same Earthlink webmail account, the
> > URLs are correctly hyperlinked.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what browser settings in Chrome might be
> > affecting this?
> >
> > Thanks much,
> > -Monique
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