Firefox Weirdness...

[Lisa Kachold]

What was the "security" site name or URL?

Your Firefox security can be tightened up by using NoScript plugin to control JavaScript pop-up windows, Firefox settings and systems changes.

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/10/13/resize-and-reposition-your-browser-with-javascript/

You should also NEVER surf (or work) in root!


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> Subject: Re: Firefox Weirdness...
> From: wien33 at cox.net
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:35:33 -0700
> 
> Also, I just noticed under F11, the toolbar reappears when the cursor is
> near the top of the screen. With my issue, that was not the case. The
> toolbars simply stayed hidden.
> 
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:30 -0700, stu w wrote:
> > *Doh!* ...I didn't even know about that, so I didn't try it. Last time
> > it happened, restoring the defaults fixed it, but not this time.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:03 -0700, Jared Anderson wrote:
> > > F11?
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, stu w <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:
> > >         Greetings All,
> > >                Something happened to me last night while browsing the
> > >         net with Firefox
> > >         that took me by surprise, and being a perpetual noob I thought
> > >         I'd toss
> > >         it up here. I came across a "Scare-ware" site that "scanned"
> > >         my Ubuntu
> > >         8.10 box and found a whole bunch of .exe and .dll nasties. Of
> > >         course I
> > >         realized immediately it was a lame attempt to scare me into
> > >         buying
> > >         something totally useless, but afterward, Firefox Maximized
> > >         itself to
> > >         full-screen, obliterating the toolbars so I couldn't close out
> > >         of it, or
> > >         even shut down the computer.
> > >                I can see how this would be a major problem for a
> > >         Windows user, but I
> > >         simply changed to a terminal and used Top to end the process.
> > >         Restarting
> > >         Firefox and restoring the defaults had no effect on the
> > >         weirdness,
> > >         neither did completely uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox
> > >         via
> > >         Synaptic, (which was unnecessary as well, but gave me a clue
> > >         as to what
> > >         the real issue was).
> > >                The quick and dirty fix was to delete the .mozilla
> > >         folder from ~/home,
> > >         forcing Firefox to create a new file upon restarting it. That
> > >         seemed to
> > >         fix the issue, except I had to reload all my bookmarks. I have
> > >         since
> > >         backed-up my .mozilla file under a different name in case it
> > >         happens
> > >         again.
> > >                I'm just wondering if there was a simpler/better way to
> > >         deal with it? I
> > >         am running some Windows games and MSIE 6.0 (Misery?) under
> > >         Wine, if that
> > >         makes a difference, but I doubt it.
> > >                Thanks,
> > >                Stu
> > >         
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