I use Mozilla Firefox and Google as a homepage.
In the last week it’s started doing something I don’t want it to do and it’s irritating.
When I click on the Bookmarks section of the toolbar to go on a site that’s bookmarked, a box pops up as if I clicked on the “bookmark this page” icon, which I most certainly didn’t. So I have to click “done” which is annoying to have to do all the time. If I don’t, it will automatically put whatever page I was on onto the bookmark list at the end. Which means that at the end of my session the bookmark list is loaded up with a bunch of websites I didn’t want saved.
It’s never done this before, just now since upgrading to FF 3. Any way to get it to stop doing this? If I want a page bookmarked, I’ll do it manually thankyouverymuch!
This is certainly aberrant behaviour, I have Ff3 on several machines and none of them do this.
Is there something that is set somewhere that makes it automatically do this?
BTW, my mistake. It’s not “done” I have to click to avoid the page bookmarking, it’s “cancel”.
Ooh. That happened to me a day or two ago. I just restarted FF and it was okay.
Recently I think I picked up a browser hijacker. A couple of sites I visit frequently were temporarily redirected to virusandspywarescaning dot com (yes, 1 “n”) and antispywaremaster dot com. I wonder if there’s a connection with the bookmarking problem.
My personal opinion but Firefox was seriously broken after version 3.
Anyway, in other forums I’ve noticed other having problems with bookmarks. Myself included. For the others it was an add-on. For me it involved a complete reinstall including deleting the /home/me/.mozilla directory.