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Re: Wierd firefox symptom
From: "Daniel H. Renner" <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:46:04 -0700
I have a client that stayed at a hotel, the Crowne Plaza UN in New York. While there, she used the hotel's Internet connection with her laptop. She was running Windows XP Pro and Firefox v1.0.3 - no problems with the connection. Upon return, when she tries to go to her specified homepage, it instead tries to access the hotel's (I'm assuming here) proxy or autorization server - no, no proxy settings set. I've installed Firefox v1.0.4 and still get the same results - it will NOT view that website. Changed homepage to Google and can surf fine, but will NOT go to that original home site. So, yes - I've seen it... Cheers, Dan On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:40:25 -0400, "Stan Bubrouski" said:
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:40:25 -0400 From: Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski () gmail com> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Wierd firefox symptom To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk Message-ID: <122827b9050606204017b2b409 () mail gmail com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hey, I don't ordinarily send messages like this, but I find it kinda disturbing. I opened up firefox today (v1.0.2 I know its old but I haven't used this PC in a while), and typed: www.espn.com into the address bar only to find myself at: http://www.megago.com/l/? I checked the address bar history and it indeed showed that I had typed http://www.espn.com So I tried again. I made sure I typed www.espn.com and once again ended up at http://www.megago.com/l/? The third time was a charm. ESPN actually loaded. Checked firefox directories for any rogue extensions or modified files and nothing had been modified since I updated the User Agent Switcher extension on 5/16/05. I ran NAV and MS Anti-Spyware and nothing was found. Which makes sense since I only use Mozilla and have A LOT of sites blocked using adblock extension. So I'm kind of at a loss. I can't reproduce it atm but I'm just wondering has anyone else seen this before and could it just be a firefox bug? -sb
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