Melinda S in TX Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 For the last few days, every time I open Firefox, my window opens up and another window pops up too. The second window is usually a game or an infomercial. Is anyone else having this trouble? What can I do to get rid of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 no trouble here. Have you run your antivirus program recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I don't have the same problem, but last night my Reminder Fox (add-on) completely disappeared. I tried to follow instructions I found online to find it and bring it back up, but none of them made sense so I had to re-install it. I lost all of my reminders and am having to key them in again. I'm quite annoyed because I depend on that program to remind me of everything including to take my meds every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I had something like this going on last week. I think some sort of add on got accidentlly turned on by one of my kids. If you have the top menu bar set up you can select Tools -> Add-Ons Check out what adds you have enabled under Extensions and Plugins. I had a play around with disabling things until I figured out the right one. And you need to manually kill Firefox in the Task Manager to make the changes actually show up I think. Hope that was remotely helpful - LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforlatin Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I just gave up on Firefox. Something odd was happening there, so now I'm using Chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliums Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Spybot search and destroy has been great for us in getting rid of annoying pop ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Haven't had any issues here. I use Adblocker Plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 We got a virus a few months ago that installed itself as an ad-on on Firefox and did something similar. I think we got it from a gaming website my kids went to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I'm using Ad Blocker Plus and haven't have any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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