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Firefox Issues (vanity)
Vanity ^ | 3/27/25 | Econjack

Posted on 03/27/2025 7:38:35 AM PDT by econjack

Since the last auto-update of my Firefox browser, emails that contain forwarding URL, those URL will not execute. For example, I get a daily trivia question. When I click on the link to answer the quiz, Firefox locks up. The same happens with a Facebook link.

If I use a different browser (e.g., Opera), the links work fine. I've tried to notify Firefox, but getting a link for them is a bad joke.

Has anyone else experienced this?


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Since this is vanity via firefox( and other browsers) anyone get this on MyYahoo every single time a person logs in to yahoo mail?
21 posted on 03/27/2025 8:30:48 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Karliner
Hmmm didn't post the screenshot

yahoo


22 posted on 03/27/2025 8:33:30 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: econjack

Firefox and Microsoft Updates routinely screw up one’s PC. Microsoft is now sending messages announcing aka threatening they will no longer be supporting Windows 10 starting in October. If one’s system won’t run Win 11, they state that you need to purchase a new computer. Yeah right, is Microsoft paying for it?

Anyone know how to get rid of the Edge crap that Microsoft keeps adding after every update?


23 posted on 03/27/2025 8:36:53 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: linMcHlp

Usually, if you just place the cursor over the link button you can read the URL link at the bottom of the display without copying the link. I don’t see what’s gained by copying the link into an editor when I can see it in the message.


24 posted on 03/27/2025 8:40:29 AM PDT by econjack
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To: econjack

Get used to it, there is a whole lot of super smart college kids with degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory working for a lot of big companies now, most are just plain dumber than dirt, but some of the proudest morons you will ever meet.

I use quickbooks payroll service for my business and every single time they have one of their super smart idiot college kids do an update, everything goes in the crapper until they get the old retired guy to come in and fix it, usually takes 2 months./


25 posted on 03/27/2025 8:43:30 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: econjack

What you see, is not necessarily the actual URL link.


26 posted on 03/27/2025 8:46:59 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

“NEVER click on a link in an e-mail message

NEVER click on a link in a text message.”

I get texts and emails from valid sources that have embedded links.

No problem clicking on them.


27 posted on 03/27/2025 8:51:17 AM PDT by TexasGator (1'111'111111111/)
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To: econjack; TexasGator

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9851372/how-can-url-be-hidden-in-hyperlink-when-mouse-hover

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712163

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/is-hovering-over-a-link-good-enough.1203061/

https://nordvpn.com/blog/url-spoofing/


28 posted on 03/27/2025 8:57:57 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: econjack; TexasGator

The ‘From: _____ ‘ field of an e-mail message header, is very easy to spoof and is not reliable proof of the actual e-mail message source.

Learning to read e-mail message headers:

https://www.mailercheck.com/articles/how-to-read-and-understand-email-headers


29 posted on 03/27/2025 9:02:37 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

Don’t post links to me. You are an unknown source and your embedded links may install malware.

Just taking your advice.


30 posted on 03/27/2025 9:02:49 AM PDT by TexasGator (1'111'111111111/)
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To: linMcHlp

Did not know this...


31 posted on 03/27/2025 9:07:31 AM PDT by econjack
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To: TexasGator

FreeRepublic.com software blocks usage of certain HTML/HTML5 code and usage of a variety of javascript commands that would be required in order to spoof a link in a reply.


32 posted on 03/27/2025 9:16:57 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: TexasGator

And my advice is, in my reply 18 above:

Copy the link. Paste the link into a text editor window, and then examine the link, perhaps edit it - to make it a clean link.

Copy that link in the text editor window.

Paste that link, into the URL address field of your chosen Internet browser.


33 posted on 03/27/2025 9:19:05 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

How about you posting the relevant information.


34 posted on 03/27/2025 9:24:01 AM PDT by TexasGator (1'111'111111111/)
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To: rktman

Same here. I use Brave, and haven’t touched FF ever since the Brandon Eich incident.


35 posted on 03/27/2025 9:31:37 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: martin_fierro

Seems about right....


36 posted on 03/27/2025 10:06:55 AM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: econjack

I used to love Firefox instead on IE, but them days are long gone. Firefox is too much hassle and a memory hog.

I use Google mostly now or Opera.


37 posted on 03/27/2025 10:11:23 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: econjack

its your computer but clicking links in emails is a great way to volunteer for malware, viruses, and general mischief


38 posted on 03/27/2025 10:21:54 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: TexasGator
Don’t post links to me. You are an unknown source and your embedded links may install malware.

hey, now you are getting the idea.
39 posted on 03/27/2025 10:23:51 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: econjack

Firefox has been occasionally, though rarely, locking up on my Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon edition. This problem has been present in the last few updates of Firefox. I’m currently on 136.0.2 (64 bit).


40 posted on 03/27/2025 10:59:17 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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