# Mozilla Firefox weirdness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-weirdness/716743>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-weirdness/716743 "2015-04-03T21:01:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-weirdness/716743/21 "2015-04-07T10:11:40Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> What bothers the hell out of me, after the last couple of firefox updates, I keep getting that untrusted connection popup for google, and it will not take an exception and I can’t use google. I whip over to yahoo and do whatever i am searching for and the next thing I know, I try google and it works. Damned problem is intermittent and I don’t seem to be able to trigger it deliberately. Downgrading is not an option, I just want Firefox to play nice with Google all the damned time. None of the mozilla help info worked, and all they seem to suggest is downgrading back to 35.

That is either malware or another sort of hijack. That warning means there is someone intercepting your Internet traffic. Google uses HTTPS by default, which will detect this sort of thing. Yahoo does not.

Unfortunately, walking you through everything that might be wrong is a rather big job. I’d suggest posting to a malware removal forum like [bleepingcomputer.com](http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/f/22/virus-trojan-spyware-and-malware-removal-logs/) to get you straightened out. Though just trying the tips in the Pinned Anti-malware topic may help, even though it’s rather out of date.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-weirdness/716743/22 "2015-04-07T16:45:43Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> That is either malware or another sort of hijack. That warning means there is someone intercepting your Internet traffic. Google uses HTTPS by default, which will detect this sort of thing. Yahoo does not.
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> Unfortunately, walking you through everything that might be wrong is a rather big job. I’d suggest posting to a malware removal forum like [bleepingcomputer.com](http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/f/22/virus-trojan-spyware-and-malware-removal-logs/) to get you straightened out. Though just trying the tips in the Pinned Anti-malware topic may help, even though it’s rather out of date.

Ah, will doublecheck.

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**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-weirdness/716743/23 "2015-04-08T20:01:24Z")

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There are posts at the [mozillazine.org](http://mozillazine.org) site (a forum not affiliated with Mozilla) that warn against downloading Firefox from sites other than [mozilla.org](http://mozilla.org), since Firefox is open source and others can load all kinds of crap, such as redirects and worse, into the download.

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**Author:** ![race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-weirdness/716743/24 "2015-04-09T21:20:08Z")

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I’m running V 37.0.1 and have not had this problem.

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