You need to get a clue.

I went into about:config and found something that might have been the problem. Going in there gets scary but....

Thanks for the pointer

every once in a while FF will insert a local chrome address into my address field - this is the error: I bolded the inserted text.

Does anyone know why that happens? and how to stop it?

Well, you can close the Tools window and keep the password list open but....

You have too much advertising in your .sig

I agree! It is almost always after I have watched any vid. Lately, I have taken to open all the the stuff I want to read into new tabs before I start watching the vids (I follow a lot of political...

I am tracking down a similar problem except that it hangs.

Have you noticed any similarities around what you are doing when it happens? Watching YouTube? Looking at embedded vids?

That was it - when I disable ShockWave, the problem goes away. I have to turn it back on to watch youtube so eventually I have to reboot. I should check with FF/Mozilla to see if they have...

Thanks - I forgot all about the Plug-ins (I went crazy disabling Add-ons to no avail). I disabled Shockwave and Shockwave for directors and Silverlight. I will see if this helps.

Thanks!!

Oh, cr*p - I have been having the hang-up problem lately with FireFox and was hoping for a fix here. I can't close FF and when I kill it with Task Manager, the sessions go away but the process...

First you want to install MR Tech add-ons. Do you have NoScripts add-on?

If you screw around with about:config, you had better have a backup file.

Places to go:
NoScript...

Here is what disturbs me about MSIE vs FF:
MS is a for-profit business and sells ad space - how good is their ad blocker going to be?

The last couple of evil exploits have been using...

You could just get FireFox and make that your primary browser instead. I don't want to start a religious browser war but I find firefox to be a much more trustworthy way to go.

Well, you can try http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/Installation.html. It can be used as a very basic proxy but as you gain confidence and interest you can add all sorts of stuff to it. It is not...

The quick answer is that FireFox offers Tabs (instead of opening a separate window for every website you visit, it opens tabs in the window you are in-- I hope I am clear in this.) The advantage of...

Could you have blocked IE from the web? I do not use Norton as my firewall, I use ZoneAlarm and ZA has options to block access to the net on a per-program basis - verify that you have not blocked...

Zachery, I think he means that his mom has aol - moms get a pass on using aol.

In IE, is Tools/internet options/programs/"Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default...

As a rule of thumb, I do not store personal information on my main HD's. Instead I have a external HD...

Hmmm, this would be a good use for those keychain USB drives! I am considering buying...