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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.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
Rep:
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.
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