I hope these are easy to answer.

1. Once I am reading a thread, there appears to be no way to jump back to the forum in which the thread resides and have it autmatically update. Under the old system, I could use the drop down navigation menu on the lower part of the screen to get back to the forum and have it updated. Now I seemingly cannot do this and have been using the back arrow on my Internet Browser, which does not update. Am I doing something wrong or is there no way to do this anymore?

2. I really don't need to be notified by e-mail everytime someone responds in a thread I have posted in. How can I disable getting e-mail notification of this?

Thanks!