[ale] Mozilla strangeness

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Oct 26 20:26:53 EDT 2004


Well, the about:config also does a BadThing(tm). It displays in plain
text the calendar password and user name and calendar publishing
address. (Firefox 1.0PR).
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:04, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> > Alers,
> > 
> > I have discovered the path to Mozilla's "hidden"
> > settings -- the ones you can't reach with through
> > Edit>Preferences. Just type "about:config" into the
> > address bar, without the quotes, naturally.
> > 
> > While looking through that file I discovered this line:
> > 
> > browser.history.last_page_visited       http://freepass.highlighthost.com/
> > 
> > My first thought was, "GAKK!!! SYPWARE!!  On my computer!!"
> > 
> > But perhaps that is not the case.  There does not seem to be
> > any such web site.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea what this might be doing/about?
> > 
> 
> Hmmmm, I looked at mine, and it wasn't really the "last page" I visited from the browser, but, it did seem to be the last page I launched from within e-mail.
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