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Firefox gone Metric?

Barrance

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Posted February 15, 2013 at 5:01PM

My Firefox has suddenly gone anti-imperialist and pro-metric!

Whenever an email or text has an imperial measurement it adds a bracket with the equivalent metric data therein. Its even started to do this.. 1st. ie first (1stone = 6.36Kg) This is not a premature April Fool!

I have progressively turned off add-ins but that doesn't do it. I have Firefox 18.02

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted February 15, 2013 at 6:29PM

I am a little confused by your post as Firefox is a web broswer not an email client.

Are you looking at your e-mail online?

and is the same thing happening if you look at your emails with IE or Chrome for instance?

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Barrance

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Posted February 17, 2013 at 2:37PM

Sorry if I was unclear.

No it does not happen with Internet Explorer.

See this example on a newspaper website today...

"Millions of TV sets to be hit by 4G (4 g = 0,141 oz) "

as I said it appears on any site - even on e-mail.

I have tried loading Firefox in safe mode without add-ons, and then all is well.

So I guessed this is one of the many add-ons playing up.

However I have tried disabling them one by one but without success.

So far I am stumped!

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iscanut2

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Posted February 17, 2013 at 4:55PM

Let us have the link to the page and then us Firefox users can have a look and see what happens.

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beynac

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Posted February 17, 2013 at 5:42PM

I think that you must have the Firefox add-on Converter.

Does this appear in your Firefox add-ons? If not, have you got any toolbars installed, which could have this included?

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woodchip

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Posted February 17, 2013 at 6:52PM

If it with PCA red letters change when you hover you need to use the Latest HOST.MVP File.

If not it may have something to do with it

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Barrance

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Posted February 22, 2013 at 11:10AM

Converter sounds relevant I will try to remove that. Thanks All

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