On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 00:28:14 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Hi, > > > > With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my > > firefox opening up to > > some hijacked web site called > > http://firefox/ > > which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open > > http://ads1.revenue.net/load/227700/index.html?0_R_NUM=9563354... > > > > how to get rid of this annoying behavior and open to my local homepage > > (achieved by manually hitting > > the house icon on the menu bar...). > > I think you have two issues: The first one is a known bug of the latest > iceweasel version; see for example the report > > #412344: A start-up page is http://firefox/ > > As far as I can tell, this overrides any kind of setting that you can > make (homepage, start with blank page, etc.) Since the bug is known I > hope it will be fixed soon. > > The fact that you get served ads must be related to your ISP which seems > to redirect unresolvable host names to some advertisement site. This > might be a good moment to look into the adblock extension in combination > with filterset.G and/or a filtering proxy such as privoxy. (I also see > the http://firefox/ problem but I just get a "no such domain" > notification from privoxy.) >
http://firefox/ redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ . (Using Firefox 1.0.4 in Sarge.) This feature may be (likely) missing from Iceweasel. > -- > Regards, > Florian > > -- Szia: Nyizsa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Click to get a free credit repair consultation, raise your FICO score http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJkjb9vdrMyRwpewP6iqjSQUoa4/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
