Closed
Bug 288055
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
home page hijacked to Mozilla
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: bgill, Assigned: bugzilla)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
The home page selected was http://www.google.com/ - and this is the page URL
which appears in the address bar when FireFox boots, when http://www.google.com/
or www.google.com are typed into the address bar, and when the 'home' button is
clicked.
The page displayed, however, is a page which appears to be from a Mozilla site
(available code from the page follows).
At present, this glitch is intermittent but happening with increasing fequency.
This glitch has not appeared on other machines using Win98.
Thanks for your attention. Code from the displayed page follows.
Brian H. Gill
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html lang="en"
dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>developer.mozilla.org - Developing on the Mozilla Platform</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://www.mozilla.org/css/print.css" media="print">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://www.mozilla.org/css/base/content.css" media="all">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://www.mozilla.org/css/cavendish/content.css" title="Cavendish"
media="all">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site-style/base/template.css"
media="screen">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="/site-style/cavendish/template.css" title="Cavendish" media="screen">
<link rel="parent" href="http://www.mozilla.org/">
</head>
<body>
<div class="tHeader">
<a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/" id="tDevMo">developer.mozilla.org</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="/about/">About</a>
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/community/">Community</a>
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/">Download</a>
<li><a href="/contribute/">Contribute</a>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="tCrumbs">
<a href="">Home</a>
</div>
<!-- Sidebar goes here. We will have none by default for now;
The site should be navigatable without a sidebar, and we
want to encourage people to build up the basics with this
in mind. -->
<div id="tContent">
<h1>Welcome to DevMo</h1>
<p>
Welcome to developer.mozilla.org! This site aims to collect and index
documentation about <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a>, a
cross-platform internet suite and application development platform.
Currently we host only the <a href="xpcom/">reference documentation for
XPCOM</a>, Mozilla's Cross Platform Component Object Module framework;
the bulk of our <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/">existing
documentation</a> is still on the main site.</p>
<h2>mozilla.org Developer Documentation</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="mozilla/">Mozilla Development</a>
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/">Web Development</a>
</ul>
<h2>External Resources</h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/">Mozilla Developer Wiki</a></dt>
<dd>A documentation kitchen where developers share information and ideas.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.xulplanet.com/">XULPlanet</a>
<dd>References and tutorials for building applications with XUL and the
Gecko SDK</dd>
<dt><a href="http://mozref.com/">Mozilla AOM Reference</a>
<dd>A reference of Mozilla's Application Object Model, including its
Document Object Model (DOM) for manipulating XML and HTML documents.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://mozdev.org/">MozDev</a></dt>
<dd>The "sourceforge" of Mozilla-related projects.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Have documents to contribute? Noticed some errors on our site?
<a href="contribute">Get involved</a> and help us create a comprehensive
reference to Mozilla technology.</p>
<address>
</address>
</div>
<div class="tFooter">
<ul class="snav">
<li><a
href="http://cvs-www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=devmo/src/index.en.html&rev=&root=/cvsroot/">Document
History</a>
<li><a
href="http://doctor-test.mozilla.org/doctor.cgi?action=edit&file=devmo%2Fsrc%2Findex.en.html">Edit</a>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot FireFox
2.wait for home page to appear
3.
Actual Results:
The address bar shows the page URL as "http://www.google.com/" but a page which
is apparently from a Mozilla site appears.
Expected Results:
The address bar should show the page URL as "http://www.google.com/" and display
the Google home page.
This glitch occures on an old (about 9 years old) computer with a small (1.5
gig) hard drive. The drive is nearly full. The person who normally operates this
machine is not 'tech savy,' and may have inadvertantly changed some settings.
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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It sounds like you need to reset the home page, the page you list the source of
is http://developer.mozilla.org/.
To fix
Open http://www.google.com in an empty browser window (no other tabs)
Open the options window tools -> options -> general -> click on the use current
page button
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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No comments from user in about a month, WFM.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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Comment 3•19 years ago
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I am using WIN XP Pro on a Toshiba Notebook Satellite A10, 2.2 GHz Pent IV, 4OGB
HD (21.6 GB free space). Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 began hijacking my home page
about one month ago and setting it to the Firefox start page, after I had been
using Firefox for several months. This is a random, unreproducible problem. My
home page was originally set to http://mail.yahoo.com/?.intl=us. Each time it
was hijacked I would reset it. In the process, all of my Options are also reset
to default. The last time it happened, most, but not all of my bookmarks were
also deleted. I uninstalled Mozilla for a couple of weeks. I reinstalled it
about one week ago and once again, today, Firefox has again hijacked my home
page (it doesn't matter what URL I use either) and reset my Options to default.
I am not tech savvy and this is an extremely frustrating situation. Especially
to have lost months of bookmarks. I had to go to my old, old desktop and import
my IE favorites which I haven't used in 2 years.
Fortunately, I never uninstalled the IE browser on my Notebook and began using
Bookmark Bridge after Mozilla had deleted by bookmarks on a previous occasion.
This time, when my bookmarks were partially gone, I decided to do a merge. I
should have viewed them first, because afterwards I discovered the missing
favorites were no longer in my IE brower either. I know that I may be
addressing two different bugs, but at this time they seem to be related.
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