Orange messaging and chrome

I installed Firefox, and I can no longer send or forward emails to my Orange mailbox, just like with Internet Explorer or Chrome! On all browsers, I can receive emails but cannot send or forward them. I just chatted for 3/4 hour with Orange support who doesn't understand anything! It was working fine until Orange changed their webmail, which was confirmed to me by a technician from their team. They briefly fixed it, it lasted for 2 days and then it started again! I have Gmail and Hotmail but almost all my contacts are in the Orange mailbox, my favorites are in Chrome, how can I transfer that to Gmail or Hotmail and transfer my favorites to Firefox?
Thank you in advance.

I hadn't read your response about transferring Chrome favorites to Firefox, sorry!
I still need to transfer the contacts from Orange to Gmail or Hotmail (which one is preferable?)
Thanks again.

I do not really agree with this. The messaging apps of the average person are quite secure and in any case as secure as on a PC or a phone.

Security primarily depends on the user's knowledge of the risks, and a PC will be just as insecure as anything else if that knowledge is lacking. The weak point is the human element.

For many, a local messaging system will be more of a source of problems than of "solutions," and the lower the technical level, the more true this will be.
Sure, local messaging offers advantages for me or for certain uses; it all depends on the need AND the actual level of confidentiality required.

If we think in these terms, it is better to raise awareness about security in general and improve reflexes rather than "push" towards a use that these people "couldn't care less about."

After all, everything is a matter of our friend's interest.

And if I may make a simple suggestion following this post we read:

"1- Chrome, your favorite, is the worst internet browser because its creator, Google, is the champion of internet tracking in all categories! "

then

"By using Firefox instead of Chrome, you continue to use the worst solution for managing email "

It's already not easy to follow the discourse :-) but this is even more confusing. A clarification is needed, but I think the "local client" solution doesn't really resonate with our friend.

"Moreover, you continue to take all the risks of loss and hacking".

As for loss, I’m also skeptical; moving to local storage is already a step, but if loss does occur, it will be much more on their machine.
85% of people have no notion of backup, nor backup management, etc., so the local option is a risk. And it would be yet another thing to manage that the majority will do poorly.
In case of a crash, theft of the laptop, etc., everything will be lost. The risk is statistically much lower online.

Once again, a good "attitude" regarding security will be more beneficial than adding more targeted solutions for informed users.

Have a good week.

Hello madmyke,

I won't engage in a pointless debate on this.

Simply type "hacking" in a forum like Orange's. 5 to 20 cases per day, which only represent the tip of the iceberg! All cases of contact storage on the online account. For now, 2000 occurrences because they don't know how to count beyond that.
https://communaute.orange.fr/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&filter=location&location=forum-board%3Amail&q=piratage

No issues with losing contacts or messages on the PC.
The numbers speak for themselves!

In an ideal world, if no one stored their contacts on their online account, spamming/phishing and other unwanted ads or scams would be reduced by 100 times, or more, since that is the number one source that provides target addresses to the perpetrators of these offenses!

As for the loss of emails and/or contacts, the causes are numerous:
- Deletion of the account by the ISP after termination while the former client continues to store everything in it.
- Poorly managed relocation
- Change of offer, thus changing the contract equivalent to termination
- Change of ISP
- Interaction with other devices configured in IMAP
- Deletion of emails and folders by a hacker
- Accidental deletion by the user with no possibility of recovery after the trash is emptied
- Account deletion by the ISP's error
- Etc...

This kind of loss is almost always unrecoverable because no backup exists.

Just because the majority of people are not trained in this kind of risks, it doesn’t mean we should confirm them in their ignorance and let them run these risks!

Thank you so much SerBal22, thanks to you I installed Firefox and imported my messages and bookmarks from Chrome before it stopped working today, after I had a Windows 10 problem at startup, the subject of my question on 09/28!!! Otherwise, I would have been quite stuck. A thousand thanks for the efficiency and speed of your response: a true professional that a beginner like me really needs!
With Chrome, I no longer had access to sending and transferring emails on my Orange mailbox, only receiving worked. With Firefox, no problem, everything is OK and Orange's hotline also advised me to install Firefox...
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