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Old 08-01-2004, 08:48 PM   #1
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Damn irritating -> spoofed firefox interface


I stumbled across some site that hacked my firefox browser with some java hack. I hate the person who did it, because his script permaspoofed firefox. I can't #*£%#$ resize the firefox window now, despite a restart of the whole box. Can it be fixed without reinstalling firefox? I don't want to do that because of all themes, preferences and extensions I have.

I checked the javascript console of firefox, and this is what it says:

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Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsISupports.QueryInterface]"  nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: updateGoMenu :: line 793"  data: no]
I'm going to try to fix it by looking at the root accounts chrome file, comparing to the user accounts, but if that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas.
 
Old 08-02-2004, 01:25 AM   #2
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You should be pretty safe just reinstalling since all of your addons are saved in a folder in your home directory under .mozilla/firefox.
 
Old 08-02-2004, 11:10 AM   #3
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Thx. I'll do that.
 
Old 08-02-2004, 12:31 PM   #4
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I think this is bug in firefox java script not something melicious
very strange it persists after restart
i think not just reinstall firefox but upgrade firefox if possible
 
Old 08-02-2004, 08:40 PM   #5
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Well, It's happened to me once before, but that time a restart of firefox was all that was needed. There's numerous reports of similar exploits on mozilla.orgs bugzilla.
I'm running the latest version of Firefox, I have the "automatically check for upgrades" box selected
And btw, a reinstall didn't cure it, I needed to remove all the userfiles before it was fixed.

Dats wot j0 git fer serfin afta nekkid gurls, kidz

Thx anyways.

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