July 21, 2005

Firefox question

Yes, I know I could try to look up the answer on Bugzilla, but they have so many freakin' bug reports on there, I'm too impatient to try to sift through them all to see if someone has reported this problem before (and I'm sure they have).

When I use Firefox (my preferred browser for surfing at home), I don't get pop-up ads, but my browser is often re-directed to other sites I didn't ask for. They're not always what I would expect, and often actually have some tenuous connection to the site I'm browsing (I'll be shopping and it will direct me to eBay, for example). What's even more annoying is that sometimes, it not only re-directs my page to someplace I don't want to go, but minimizes the size of my window to about the same size as a pop-up ad! Argh. This is driving me crazy. It particularly drives me crazy when I'm doing something that I really don't want to have interrupted, like in the middle of paying a bill. Once I get re-directed, the site loses the information I already entered so I have to enter it all over again and cross my fingers in hopes that the browser won't re-direct me before I get a chance to pay it the second time.

If anyone has any suggestions on what to do, please let me know.

And in other news, I finally finished Atonement last night. The ending was much better than the stuff toward the end. Maybe I'm getting out of my book rut after all.....

Posted by Kitty at July 21, 2005 08:37 AM

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