[PLUG] Strange Firefox Hijacking?

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu Jun 29 13:40:27 UTC 2017


On 06/29/2017 12:24 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 06/28/2017 10:15 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> <...>
>>
>> The important question is, how does a website take so much control of
>> Firefox, and do I need to be looking for any other bad side effects?
> This is an old issue that pops up in Web 2.0-ish winky blink sites with
> lots of java/flash/javascript and the occasional memory leak  Often a
> bit of FF stays in memory and gets lost and you'll just have to kill it
> with extreme prejudice.   FF can and will suck up memory and CPU cycles.

Now that you mention it, I recall something about this from several 
years ago.

> If you linked in from another site to youtube, I doubt there was a
> nefarious payload - Google would not want the bad press.  The issue most
> likely was either flash, or some other site heap full of javascript
> embedded advertisements.

I did get there from another site. I had the same thought about Google 
being cautious about bad press.

Thanks for the reply. I'm breathing a little easier now.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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