IB-Dick - thank you for responding.
Could you or your colleagues PLEASE help me ? I am STILL getting REDIRECT to Internet explorer issues each time I try to post and I am still LOCKED out of FT Chat and getting that java exception error

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This is really starting to drag on (since 13 November for me) and frankly I have just stopped hanging out here on FT daily. All my friends can now get back into CHAT, but I cant

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What is going on?