[PLUG] Firefox or security problems

[wes]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:07 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:02:59 -0700
> > John Meissen <john at meissen.org> dijo:
> >
> > >Do you mean you already looked at that, or that it was enabled? If the
> > >latter, did you try turning it off?
> >
> > I have restarted Firefox with it checked, and with it unchecked.
> > Neither setting made any difference.
>
> I am rather concerned that you somehow got a htttp:// request
> when you say you put no url specifier on the line.  Can you
> check that the errors you are getting do not infact have this
> as the error in the report?
>
> If something is injecting a bogus URI that could be a real problem.
>
> Please check for proxy settings as well...
>
>
+1 to this, that is quite concerning actually. I thought it might be some
new bug and tried googling on that, but no result.

-wes