Firefox Weirdness...

[stu w]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 20:41 +0000, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> What was the "security" site name or URL?
> 
Unfortunately I don't remember as I was searching for something totally
different, onboard VIA cpu motherboards as I recall. It's not the first
time I've stumbled on one of these sites, but they never caused issues
before, and of course, the History went out with the old .mozilla file.

> 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/
> 
Thanks for the info. I'll look into this tonight.

> You should also NEVER surf (or work) in root!
> 
That's one of the advantages of Ubuntu, never doing anything as root
user unless the computer requires it. With a few exceptions, Lenny is
pretty much the same way.
	Thanks again for the tips!
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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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