01-28-2017, 06:54 PM
trinidad,
I always had Google Chrome it is not new to me. I left windows 5 or 6 years ago and started fresh with Firefox all over again with the profile. I don`t have any devices and wiped my hard drive clean when I switched to Linux of course it obviously is quite possible through an Email correspondence or whatever that a Windows connection was made but I find it doubtful. I have cleaned Firefox before and started with a fresh profile but it still follows. I know it is not and I hope I did not create the impression that it is an LL problem as I mentioned before it does not matter what O/S I tried it still shows up. I had filed a bug report more than once but never followed up on it. I have notified Mozilla and never heard back. I am not a new comer to Google Chrome used it for many years and never had a problem. The only problem in fact I have had was with Chromium when they stopped using NPAPI and I had a problem with pepper flash, filed a bug report and had things taken care of. That was not a smooth transition for Chromium but amazingly it was for Google.
I always had Google Chrome it is not new to me. I left windows 5 or 6 years ago and started fresh with Firefox all over again with the profile. I don`t have any devices and wiped my hard drive clean when I switched to Linux of course it obviously is quite possible through an Email correspondence or whatever that a Windows connection was made but I find it doubtful. I have cleaned Firefox before and started with a fresh profile but it still follows. I know it is not and I hope I did not create the impression that it is an LL problem as I mentioned before it does not matter what O/S I tried it still shows up. I had filed a bug report more than once but never followed up on it. I have notified Mozilla and never heard back. I am not a new comer to Google Chrome used it for many years and never had a problem. The only problem in fact I have had was with Chromium when they stopped using NPAPI and I had a problem with pepper flash, filed a bug report and had things taken care of. That was not a smooth transition for Chromium but amazingly it was for Google.
(01-28-2017, 03:33 PM)trinidad link Wrote: Wow you are certainly coming to the wrong conclusion here. Stop using profiles and device syncing altogether and you'll be a lot more secure. Use Startpage as your browser homepage and use a proxy. Google is google i/e advertising and endless js updating. The file is probably a generated scrap of js for Windows software and has no effect on your Linux OS. I wouldn't consider this a LL or Moz security issue at all and it is probably persistent because of your Mozilla usage profile which somehow got linked to a Windows software site, or some cell phone incompatibility. User profiles and device syncing make you less secure period. I use nothing natively Google for web browsing on Windows 10 machines, and always proxy them. Your life is in the cloud whether you know it or not, but you put it there with your user profile and device sync, not a virus, not a file error. Delete the files and see what Firefox eventually prompts you to do afterwards, if anything, and file a bug report with Moz. That should locate the source of the problem. There is no such thing as secure Google Chrome. The web is not a community service. It's about making money, one way or another. On that basis I trust Amazon and MS user profiling far more than Google or Moz based both on past experiences, and on their business and service models compared to Google's. Good luck with that new Google profile.I also started fresh when I bought a new desk top some months ago. As I said I am fine without Firefox and in fact without Chromium which fails to update on Ubuntu`s or synoptic repositories but I have found that Arch rolling releases do update in a very timely manner. I am not naive and I realize there is no expectation of privacy or complete security in the cloud world but I do the best I can to take the precautions I can and warn others when I find something not quite right. I do use starpage and also Duck Duck for searches but I suppose your right about eliminating the profile altogether. Bottom line, I am convinced after the work I`ve done that the problem lies with Firefox and so I agree we can disagree. Best regards.
TC