I have Fire fox and Emoticons are there on the first page when you start a new topic - they and other Visuals are not present when replying or adding to another's post.
Emoticons, emogis are so overused in my opinion - use words to relay your opinion/s let's not go down the digital wormhole of literary expression.
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Possum; AKA:- Ali El-Aziz Mohamed Gundawiathan
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That's the next place l would have looked. I have enhanced tracking "on" but have made an exception for nomad forum. By turning it "off" you do it for all pages you open.