Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:44 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > >> Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks > >> and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. > >

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:25:20PM +0200, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I can bet. I suppose it makes a difference how many users are on the > machine. For me it's just me, so if I screw something else I get to > yell at myself, but if I had 200 users yelling at me for doing s

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 16:04, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >> Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks >> and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. > > I stopped relying on browser's bookmarks. That i

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >> Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks >> and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. > > I stopped relying on browser's bookmarks. That is because they are

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Think about what you would lose _if_ you delete .mozilla. Bookmarks > and passwords come to mind. Ask me how I know that. I stopped relying on browser's bookmarks. That is because they are not available if I shift to another browser, another machine or another os. These d

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/13/07 11:02, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> See, I learn something new from this list every day. At least now the >> OP should know what to do. > > Imagine the howls of outrage if apt-get decided to scan thru > /etc/passwd del

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 11:02, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > See, I learn something new from this list every day. At least now the > OP should know what to do. Imagine the howls of outrage if apt-get decided to scan thru /etc/passwd deleting each account's $HOME/.ice

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: > Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 >> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> KS wrote: Joe Hart wrote: >

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > KS wrote: > > > Joe Hart wrote: > > >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > >>> Any suggestions on how to stop this

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> KS wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Any suggestions on how to stop this?

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:48:58 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > KS wrote: > > Joe Hart wrote: > >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > >>> Any suggestions on how to stop this? > >>> Many TIA! > >>> Dennis > >>> * > >> Perhaps uninstalling (purging

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>> Any suggestions on how to stop this? >>> Many TIA! >>> Dennis >>> * >> Perhaps uninstalling (purging) the one you have and installing it again >> will solve your problem. >> >> Joe >> > > Not i

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-12 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Any suggestions on how to stop this? > >> Many TIA! >> Dennis >> * > > Perhaps uninstalling (purging) the one you have and installing it again > will solve your problem. > > Joe > Not if the problems exists in his Iceweasel profile. /KS -- To UNSU

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the > supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." > and an ad for making w

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Dennis G. Wicks dies 05/04/2007 hora 08:28: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > [...] > > Any suggestions on how to stop this? Backup your FF private dir to be able to inspect it later and see what happened, but get it out of the way, so that you start a clean bro

Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." and an ad for making web sites for funeral homes! If I use Galeon or lynx I get to the real site.