Re: Firefox Weirdness...

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, stu w <wien33@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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