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O.T. FF browser issue?
I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Intel (R) Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz 4GB RAM, 750 GB HD System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) Seagate Backup Plus 1(TB) 2.5 USB Portable HD WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive The problem is with the 8500 since I only use the 780 as a backup computer. I've mentioned this before but it seems to be getting worst especially with the Fox news site. http://www.foxnews.com/ When I click on a story it cycles and cycles,. and when it finally opens it keeps cycling through the story. Often I have to copy/paste the story to You Tube just to listen. Other times when I click on stories they don't open. I was just on ebay and all of a sudden music started playing! I only had ebay open and I didn't click on anything! Now how does that happen? In passing, I hate that now they put ads in the the story so your constantly interrupted. If I remember correctly, part of the reason FF has slowed is because they changed and now are more like Chrome where I have (4) FF exe all running at the same time. I've run all the scans and I don't detect any malware but am puzzled by how long some pages take to load now and this pop-up music on eBay. Thoughts/suggestions? Robert |
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Ok, I was just on MSN reading another story
when music just started playing from no where! Just like it did when I was on eBay. There were no-pops ups it just starts playing from I don't know where? Again, I had nothing else opened. Also, in relation to the slowness of connecting to pages. I've literally seen it say it was 'handshaking' at the bottom of the screen while it was trying to connect. I haven't seen that since modems! All this is not right. Thoughts/suggestions, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Ok, I was just on MSN reading another story when music just started playing from no where! Just like it did when I was on eBay. There were no-pops ups it just starts playing from I don't know where? Again, I had nothing else opened. Also, in relation to the slowness of connecting to pages. I've literally seen it say it was 'handshaking' at the bottom of the screen while it was trying to connect. I haven't seen that since modems! All this is not right. Thoughts/suggestions, Robert The computer has a virus. Possibly vundo or some varient. Possibly a redirect, also. See if Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 gets rid of it. |
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I do or thought I had a Kaspersky rescue 10 disc but when I inserted the CD nothing seems to be on it and I don't have a reliable download link to create a new one. Also I saw this: https://s8.postimg.org/sttp2uw05/Win_7_New.jpg where Win 7 New C: should it not be Win 7 Pro C:? Also I tried to use Tinypic for this and this is what it shows: https://s8.postimg.org/f05cdy0vp/tiny_pics.jpg Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I do or thought I had a Kaspersky rescue 10 disc but when I inserted the CD nothing seems to be on it and I don't have a reliable download link to create a new one. Kaspersky website is a good place to start. https://support.kaspersky.com/us/viruses/rescuedisk#kb Also I saw this: https://s8.postimg.org/sttp2uw05/Win_7_New.jpg where Win 7 New C: should it not be Win 7 Pro C:? The primary partition name can be almost anything (length limited) or nothing. I name mine after the HDD model or serial number. Also I tried to use Tinypic for this and this is what it shows: https://s8.postimg.org/f05cdy0vp/tiny_pics.jpg Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Ok, I was just on MSN reading another story when music just started playing from no where! Just like it did when I was on eBay. There were no-pops ups it just starts playing from I don't know where? Again, I had nothing else opened. Also, in relation to the slowness of connecting to pages. I've literally seen it say it was 'handshaking' at the bottom of the screen while it was trying to connect. I haven't seen that since modems! All this is not right. Thoughts/suggestions, Robert These problems aren't exactly easy to fix. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1055864 In the last section of the thread, one commenter thinks there is a "newtab" setting that is setting up the errant piece of software causing you grief. I can't tell from the very last post though, how the original poster fixed it. In the example, plugin-container runs because it's a piece of software which "isolates" plugins from the main Firefox process. And the design of Firefox has changed, from FF53 to FF57, so some people might end up being interested in what version you're running. FF57 (Quantum) can still have audio shenanigans, as FF57 likely supports some set of HTML5 video/audio standards, as well as Adobe Flash still working in some capacity. So there are still lots of things to be shoving into plugin-containers, still lots of things to play rude music when you don't want it. Lots of regular plugins, no longer work on Quantum, but the trick being played on you right now, will be engineered to work with just about every Firefox version. In FF57, your copy of QuickTime plugin should stop working. And that's about the only positive thing we can say about FF57. The audio icon in the OS, has sliders per process. But that isn't a solution to any sort of problem. If you're viewing video on a page, while unexpected music is also playing, there won't be a slider for each thread. There may be a plugin to provide that level of resolution, but then it would depend on the version of Firefox, as to whether it would still work. And managing audio problems that way is stupid anyway - you need to remove the software that has added something to "newtab". At a guess. Paul |
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Sorry, I have FF version 57.0.2 (64 bit)
From what you and Ken say, it may be the new version of FF that may be causing this intermittent problem. I checked the last comment on the link and I'm very iffy about going into about:config because I may screw things up royally. I tried going into Safe Mode but it never did. I pressed F8 repeatedly at intervals and the MBR appears but nothing happens. I tried this several times. Thoughts/suggestions, Robert |
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In message , Mark
Twain writes: Sorry, I have FF version 57.0.2 (64 bit) From what you and Ken say, it may be the new version of FF that may be causing this intermittent problem. I checked the last comment on the link and I'm very iffy about going into about:config because I may screw things up royally. I tried going into Safe Mode but it never did. I pressed F8 repeatedly at intervals and the MBR appears but nothing happens. I tried this several times. Thoughts/suggestions, Robert Sometimes when people talk about safe mode in the context of Firefox, they don't mean rebooting Windows, only restarting Firefox with add-ons disabled (which is an option under the Help menu in Firefox). No F8 required. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Lewis: ... d'you think there's a god? Morse: ... There are times when I wish to god there was one. (Inspector Morse.) |
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I had never heard of FF safe mode before,..
however, I found how to do so and typed about:addons and this is what it gave: https://s8.postimg.org/cldgt7fed/addons.jpg Although it still begs the question of why the F8 didn't work when I restarted the computer. Robert |
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I was on MSN earlier and the music started up again
from nowhere (3) times while I tried to read a story. Later I tried to read another story and it started again.. this is getting nuts. As far as the HD I didn't rename it or anything,.. I have Win 7 Pro so I don't understand this Win7 New? I created and ran the Kapersky Rescue CD and ticked disk boot sectors hidden start-up objects C: and then afterwards I checked sda1 sda2 It took 3 hours in all and showed no errors that I'm aware of. However after completion I saw an update for Kapersky and realized the one I just used was obsolete. So I have to redo the scan? I'll do it again tomorrow,.... Robert |
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I forget to add the update information:
Threat types total database release date Malware 6594390 10-7-15 Robert |
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I understand now about going into FF safe mode
although to be honest this is the first time I had heard of this. However, my concern about the F8 remains,. even though that wasn't the safe mode I was suppose to go to it doesn't work. It takes me to the MBR but the F8 key doesn't take me to the safe mode menu. So this is another problem,.. unrelated or maybe it is to the music playing issue? Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I understand now about going into FF safe mode although to be honest this is the first time I had heard of this. However, my concern about the F8 remains,. even though that wasn't the safe mode I was suppose to go to it doesn't work. It takes me to the MBR but the F8 key doesn't take me to the safe mode menu. So this is another problem,.. unrelated or maybe it is to the music playing issue? Robert You can boot to safe mode using msconfig. Click the boot.ini tab, then safemode, then reboot. |
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Yes, but the point is that
I should be able to using F8 without doing this. Robert |
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On 12/15/17 10:06 PM, Mark Twain wrote:
Ok, I was just on MSN reading another story when music just started playing from no where! Just like it did when I was on eBay. There were no-pops ups it just starts playing from I don't know where? Again, I had nothing else opened. Also, in relation to the slowness of connecting to pages. I've literally seen it say it was 'handshaking' at the bottom of the screen while it was trying to connect. I haven't seen that since modems! All this is not right. Thoughts/suggestions, Robert I don't have 57 installed because it breaks too many of my FF add-ons. I plan on waiting until updates are available. Sadly, for one of my favorite add-ons, the author has decided to not develop it for 57 and later. For FF troubleshooting, the very first thing you should do is restart FF in Safe Mode. This disables any add-ons, and you are running bare bones FF. Lots of times, problems go away, which means the issue is with one or more add-ons and you'll simply have to track it down. FF hasn't played nicely with Flash for a long time. When that happens, I open that page in a different browser. For a YouTube video, I just click on the pop up that says watch it on YouTube. Worst offenders for me, in this area, are the TV station videos. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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