Reluctantly I've now started to use Adblock+ on this site

hazel · 07-10-2016, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Hazel, is it possible that you have browser malware? A bad Firefox extension, for example?

I don't have any extensions except adblock and noscript. Both of them came from the Mozilla site.

dugan · 07-10-2016, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

I don't have any extensions except adblock and noscript. Both of them came from the Mozilla site.

Can you confirm that all 4 tabs under "Add-ons" contain nothing but what they should? I just checked: only one of those tabs is "Extensions".

jamison20000e · 07-10-2016, 03:34 AM

There's also the "Plugins" to check... &c.

hazel · 07-10-2016, 05:35 AM

I thought I'd posted an answer to this but it doesn't seem to be here.

I have three systems on this machine. At the moment I'm in Iceweasel on Debian. Here I have the djView plugin, which I need for genealogical research. It's set to activate on request only. There is also a plugin called OpenH264 which Mozilla installs automatically. This is deactivated.

I'll check with Firefox on Crux tomorrow.

On Crux I have no add-ons at all except that Mozilla one, which I have now deactivated. Similarly in LFS.

ondoho · 07-12-2016, 10:35 AM

it really looks like some sort of malware.
does it have to come from a firefox addon?
i even heard from linux users whose routers were somehow infected, constantly displaying pop-ups.

dugan · 07-12-2016, 04:31 PM

Hazel, you definitely have malware. I just whitelisted LQ in my adblocker (I use uBlock Origin), logged out, and refreshed a few times.

The result? No popups. All the ads stayed in the areas designed for them.