[nmglug] The OS progress,

[Eddie Schell]

not to sound like a troll, I love firefox as much as the next guy but what
if you were to use chrome? to my knowledge it seems to be more secure?

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> **
> Oh, and you were watching a pinko program that is undoubtedly heavily
> monitored too! (good for you Ted)
>
>
> On 05/01/2012 06:30 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>
> NMGlug'ers, On the Firefox issue: I was watching a segment of the
> Democracy Now, possibly "Booker's Place" from April 30th. The stream
> stopped and I think Firefox froze, so I restarted Firefox and noted
> that my home page had switched. Alas, I do not remember the address. I
> used the Firefox configuration to 'reset' the home page and a few
> other homepage settings. that seemed to clear up the tangle. I was in
> an open wifi situation so that is another vector of unknowns. Base OS
> on this is my old and stable Ubuntu 10.04
> I hope this may help.
> Ted P.
>
> On 5/1/12, MeanderingCode <meanderingcode at aetherislands.net> <meanderingcode at aetherislands.net> wrote:
>
>  On Tue 01 May 2012 06:33:59 AM MDT, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>
>  By the way, I have had some issues with some kind of exploit in
> Firefox over the last month. Both at home and at a public computer.
> Homepage and some other settings were changed. Easy enough to fix with
> 'about:config' but interesting that it has happened repeatedly.
>
>  Wow.  Do you have any idea or leads about this issue?  An exploit
> related to Firefox, or some other hole something crawled in through?  I
> would be very interested to know any information you have about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
>
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