On 09/12/09 19:05, Clayton wrote:
What the last "warning" which NoScript was asking me to allow was, "Allow about:blank" - which I was always in the past auto. accepted.
I know what "about:plugins" and "about:config" show when I type these in the URL window in Firefox. But "about:blank"?
This time I typed in "about:blank" in the URL windows.....and got, "Search Bookmarks and History".
Now, as everyone who knows me, I am not a paranoid person ("In a pig's bum I'm not!") so what is this all about?
Why it's loading about:blank, I can't say, but about:blank is pretty innocuous I would think. The Search Bookmarks and History thing (in light grey text) is just Firefox telling you that the Location bar has multiple duties now... you start typing there and it starts guessing what you're typing by your page history and bookmarks. It's a feature I use all the time.
I could be completely wrong here, but I don't think it's anything nefarious. I think you're being paranoid.
That still doesn't answer why that blank page is being called....
C.
Well, I am now really not sure that it is all that innocuous. I came across this when I went looking for "about:blank": The term "about:blank" is also the generic name for a group of variants of the CoolWebSearch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoolWebSearch> malware <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware> program group. but apparently may also be used for advertisements. It is also interesting to see how many of the sites I usually visit have "about:blank" which NoScript disallows. BC -- The best defence against logic is ignorance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org