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niharikaananth 09-12-2012 09:34 AM

Firefox problem
 
Hi All,
I am stuggling from last 2 weeks in browsing internet i.e the firefox is automatically redirecting itself to unknown url(s) whenever I have logged in to such gmail, yahoo, webmail, and even linuxquestions.org. Don't know why. So could you please give some suggestions to prevent this.

pan64 09-12-2012 09:37 AM

probably you need to check your add-ons and plugins

273 09-12-2012 09:45 AM

What type of URLs? Blank ones? Legitimate looking ones? Ones which try to get you to download something?
If not plugins then my guess would be that you're unknowingly selecting a link on the page and going to it, probably with a keyboard or mouse shortcut you don't know about or catching a touchpad with your wrist.

niharikaananth 09-24-2012 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64 (Post 4778562)
probably you need to check your add-ons and plugins

Thank you all, Sorry for the late reply.
The problem solved after clicking on "Restart with Add-ons Disabled" from "Help" option in firefox window.

craigevil 09-24-2012 11:57 AM

That's not really 'solved' just narrowed down.

Now you know it is most likely an extension causing the problem, the question is which one.


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