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  • Fwd: Firefox misbehaving badly

    From Bret Busby@21:1/5 to Rhino on Thu Mar 11 06:12:18 2021
    On 11/3/21 5:55 am, Rhino wrote:
    I am running FF 86.0 (64 bit) on Windows 10 Home and it is behaving very badly today. (The timing is odd because I haven't noticed it doing an
    update today, although I turned away at one point and it might
    conceivably have done so.) Everything was fine yesterday and for the
    last several years.

    The problematic behaviour first became evident in YouTube. I was
    watching a video and tried to write a comment. I clicked on "Add a
    public comment" and got the expected line but when I tried to type, got
    very odd behaviour.

    Here's what I found:
    - most letters typed perfectly normally
    - the letter 'i' (or 'I') took me to the main page for that YouTube channel
    - the letter 'f' (or 'F') put me in full-screen mode for the video
    - the letter 'k' (or 'K') toggled play/pause as did the space bar
    - the letter 'n' (but not 'N') took me to the next video in the list (I
    have autoplay set to off)
    - I didn't try any other characters.

    I went to another website that allowed commenting and everything worked
    fine there. It seems like this problem is unique to YouTube and Firefox.

    This is utterly bizarre: I've never seen anything like that before.

    In an attempt to isolate the scope of the problem, I tried the same
    thing in Chrome and Edge and everything worked normally there. I also
    tried my other laptop which has the exact same version of Firefox, and everything worked normally there too.

    Why would I have trouble in just *one* copy of Firefox? And more to the point, how do I fix this problem?




    It is probably the malware named javascript, which is designed to sabotage.

    I have just spent two hours trying to copy and paste a URL, from one
    window to another, and, having managed to achieve the massively
    difficult task of copying and pasting the URL, after about twenty
    minutes after the pasted URL is displayed, I am still waiting for the
    cursor to resume flashing, so that I can do the next task.

    The objective of javascript and imposing the use of it, is to eliminate functionality and productivity. It usually wastes between one and twelve
    hours of each of my days.

    This is v86.0+build3 for UbuntuMATE Linux 20.10 .

    And, it crashes about three to six times daily.

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    Bret Busby
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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?@21:1/5 to Bret Busby on Thu Mar 11 01:10:35 2021
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    On 10/03/2021 22:12, Bret Busby wrote:



    The objective of javascript and imposing the use of it, is to
    eliminate functionality and productivity. It usually wastes between
    one and twelve hours of each of my days.

    how many Add-Ons have you installed?





    And, it crashes about three to six times daily.


    Please try launching Firefox in Safe Mode.  This means disable all
    Add-Ons and then try to run Firefox to see if it still crashes "six
    times daily".  See this picture to see how you can restart the browser
    with all Add-Ons disabled:

    [ Add-Ons Disabled ] <https://i.imgur.com/jp0oxHV.png>


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    With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer
    satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/03/2021 22:12, Bret Busby wrote:<br>
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    cite="mid:mailman.250.1615414352.1077.support-firefox@lists.mozilla.org">
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    The objective of javascript and imposing the use of it, is to
    eliminate functionality and productivity. It usually wastes
    between one and twelve hours of each of my days.
    <br>
    </blockquote>
    <p>how many Add-Ons have you installed?<br>
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    <p><br>
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    cite="mid:mailman.250.1615414352.1077.support-firefox@lists.mozilla.org">
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    And, it crashes about three to six times daily.
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    </blockquote>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>Please try launching Firefox in Safe Mode.  This means disable
    all Add-Ons and then try to run Firefox to see if it still crashes
    "six times daily".  See this picture to see how you can restart
    the browser with all Add-Ons disabled:</p>
    <a href="https://i.imgur.com/jp0oxHV.png"><img
    moz-do-not-send="true" src="https://i.imgur.com/jp0oxHV.png"
    alt="[ Add-Ons Disabled ]" width="278" height="611" border="12"></a>
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    <p>With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10,
    customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of
    windows.</p>
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