Found the problem. Blind squirrel found acorn as I am for sure not well versed in software. Firefox privacy was set to not allow 3rd party cookies. Had to make livefyre.com a trusted site. worked fine after that. Hint came from livefyre help forum.

Livefyre support only lists 3 articles for Firefox, mostly relating to cookies. Make sure you aren't blocking their cookies. Also, if you use any "blockers" such as NoScript, you might need to allow some additional domains.

Any luck?

You beat me to it, good sleuthing.

Thank you for the quick assist. So many times on help channels you think you need to be buried with your laptop. Because any response will most likely occur after the last shovelful and really not be helpful. But the Firefox group seems to for sure be the exception on both counts. I keep IE because some of the MS and Dell stuff seems to be "prejudiced" against anything else but rarely use it for anything else. Dell support works excellent on my enterprise NBD contract but they can't solve prejudice, just deal with it. Again, a sincere thank you for your time and help. You are an asset to Firefox for sure.