The annoying orange box
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On the top right hand corner of any WordPress site I go to, there is a box which turns orange when someone has posted a comment to my blog or when someone has replied to my comment on another blog, and when I click on it turns grey. It used to stay grey until a new comment had been posted. But now whenever I change pages or go to another WordPress site, it keeps showing orange, I click on it, still see the same comments as before, no new ones, click it again, go to another WP blog, and the same thing happens. It’s annoying to keep have it keep turning orange for new comments only to find no new comments, and that makes it pretty meaningless if it is always going to be orange. I do get notifications when I have new comments on my blog anyway, so this isn’t really even needed. It’s not a major world problem, no, but it is annoying when it seems not to be working right, and I just wanted to alert someone about it so it could be fixed……unless it is supposed to stay orange all the time, in which case I’ll ignore it.
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Thank you, timethief. I’ve done everything you’ve outlined above except the last one – I’ll have to discuss that with my husband.
I was having the same problem after every step until I temporarily disabled add-ons and then reenabled them. It seems to be working right now.
I use Firefox 22.0.
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