Thanks - that was indeed the problem. I disabled all extensions and then re-enabled one by one and discovered that the problem is an extension called Chrome Note.
The strange thing is that I installed it many months ago and it only started to cause problems today - maybe there was a version upgrade. In any case, I deleted it and reported the abuse on the chrome store. Thanks again. On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:25:14 +0300 Rabin Yasharzadehe <ra...@rabin.io> wrote: > try disabling all your extension, > some extensions developers will sell there extensions to some 3rd > party which will then embed some nasty stuff inside of them. > > worst case, you can try and reset your chrome profile. > > -- > Rabin > > On 26 July 2016 at 17:52, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > OK - I "sort of" solved this by installing an extension - Speed Dial > > 2 - in Chromium. > > > > But I still have no idea why it happened in the first place. > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:21:34 +0300 > > Shlomo Solomon <shl...@the-solomons.net> wrote: > > > > > A small correction to what I wrote. The problem happens when I > > > click "New Tab" to the right of the open tabs - NOT when I click > > > Home. > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:08:05 +0300 > > > Shlomo Solomon <shl...@the-solomons.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm using Chromium 51.0.2704.103 on Mageia 5. > > > > My homepage is set to www.google.com > > > > > > > > Today, for no reason that I can see, when I click on the home > > > > button, seemingly "random" pages open, with one thing in common. > > > > They all look similar to Google (white background, search window > > > > etc), but instead of the Google logo, I see the word SEARCH in > > > > the colors of the Google logo. > > > > > > > > If I actually type www.google.com, I get to Google. The problem > > > > is only when I click on the home icon. > > > > > > > > I tried clearing cache, browser history etc but no change. > > > > I changed my home page to www.ynet.co.il, and I still get the > > > > "random" SEARCH sites. > > > > > > > > Has anyone seen this behaviour? > > > > > > > > I'm including a few of the sites I've been reaching. Notice that > > > > many (but not all) are from .ru: > > > > > > > > http://miyake-inc.com/i/searchsss.html > > > > http://safesearch5.ru/stm.html > > > > http://mystartpage1.ru/i/start.html > > > > http://mystartpage6.ru/blank.html > > > > http://wzscnet.com/i/startm.html > > > > http://safesearch4.ru/startss.html > > > > http://safesearch3.ru/startt.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Shlomo Solomon > > http://the-solomons.net > > Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.5 - LINUX Mageia 5 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.5 - LINUX Mageia 5 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
