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[z987k]

I don't know about all you Windows folks, but I run Linux and use Firefox. The result of that little joke was that I was unable to save files. I was able to print out the 10 pages of work that I did. I now just have to type it over. That'll be really ****ing great for my carpal tunnel. Seriously. **** you.

In addition, I had about thirty firefox tabs open in different windows. This included eBay auctions I was watching, new sites I was following, etc. Much of it was bookmarked, but a lot of it was research material where I had stumbled upon a great resource and was planning on looking at it further later tonight. It's lost. It's all lost because I can't "Restore Session" for obvious reasons.

Can we get a mod to delete this thread before somebody else has to put up with this?

zach@zach-desktop:~$killall -9 mozilla-firefox

OR

keep a little force quit on your taskbar?

OR just hit hold enter till it goes away.

THEN when you restart FF, you can restore the session.

and just because bird deleted it:

[YOUTUBE]eBGIQ7ZuuiU[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Orpheus]

It was obviously meant as a joke, with no harm intended. It shouldn't have harmed your computer. It's just a pain in the ass that can be ended by 30 seconds of pressing the X.

BTW, the video no longer works.

 

[Revvy]

It was obviously meant as a joke, with no harm intended. It shouldn't have harmed your computer. It's just a pain in the ass that can be ended by 30 seconds of pressing the X.

BTW, the video no longer works.

You may think it was a joke, but browser hijacking of any type is malware, and it is bad form to knowingly post something like that without warning people... If you read through the thread some people lost a lot of info,

I don't know about all you Windows folks, but I run Linux and use Firefox. The result of that little joke was that I was unable to save files. I was able to print out the 10 pages of work that I did. I now just have to type it over. That'll be really ****ing great for my carpal tunnel. Seriously. **** you.

In addition, I had about thirty firefox tabs open in different windows. This included eBay auctions I was watching, new sites I was following, etc. Much of it was bookmarked, but a lot of it was research material where I had stumbled upon a great resource and was planning on looking at it further later tonight. It's lost. It's all lost because I can't "Restore Session" for obvious reasons.

Can we get a mod to delete this thread before somebody else has to put up with this?

It messed my computer up as well....but nothing I was working on got lost....In a community of trust like this place is, it's just not cool...I've been very hesitant to open any links on this forum today where I can't see what it is linking too....

 

[Dude]

Cry us a river, babies. You shouldn't have clicked on it then.

 

[Orpheus]

Cry us a river, babies. You shouldn't have clicked on it then.

OMG, Dude you're killing me!

Again, no harm intended. I could only foresee the effects on windows computers running normal browsers, which are harmless.

 

[Evan!]

Cry us a river, babies. You shouldn't have clicked on it then.

It's just a freakin' Rick Roll. I got got because I was the first or second one to open the thread---but after the requisite "damn, I got rickrolled again" posts, anyone should be able to make an informed choice about whether or not to click.

Orpheus still gets the ol' rusty-spoon-in-the-eyes for rickrolling me though...

 

[Evan!]

I don't know about all you Windows folks, but I run Linux and use Firefox. The result of that little joke was that I was unable to save files. I was able to print out the 10 pages of work that I did. I now just have to type it over. That'll be really ****ing great for my carpal tunnel. Seriously. **** you.

In addition, I had about thirty firefox tabs open in different windows. This included eBay auctions I was watching, new sites I was following, etc. Much of it was bookmarked, but a lot of it was research material where I had stumbled upon a great resource and was planning on looking at it further later tonight. It's lost. It's all lost because I can't "Restore Session" for obvious reasons.

Can we get a mod to delete this thread before somebody else has to put up with this?

You lost 10 pages of work and 30 FF tabs because you didn't feel like hitting "enter" or clicking "OK" a few dozen times? WTF!? If your entire browser and other systems are ruinated by a simple browser-jack, then I'd say it's time to throw linux in the trash can.

 

[Orpheus]

Orpheus still gets the ol' rusty-spoon-in-the-eyes for rickrolling me though...

You know how I love to spoon!

 

[z987k]

I'm pretty sure you can disable those pop up messages in Firefox anyways, not the pop up windows but the one's we're talking about in the removed link.