*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 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss