Is there anybody here who is willing to explain (to a novice) how this is possible? I too have encountered a similar behavior, but was fortunate enough to not have any tabs I needed to save. I believe when I had the problem I was running Chrome.
Thanks, -Denis On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 1:42 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > Firefox 50.1.0 on Xubuntu 14.04 up to date. > > I clicked on a link that took me to wik.galert.info (DON'T GO THERE!). > This page pops up a little window warning me that authentication is > required, and the window claims that there is a virus that is sending > my credit card, etc., and that this notice is from Microsoft > (including Microsoft logos on the page). Naturally, I'm not so stupid > that I would respond to what is surely phishing. However, I haven't > found a way to close the popup window or the tab. I shut down Firefox > and then restarted it, but at the time I had several windows open, each > with numerous tabs, so to restore my session I clicked on History > > Restore previous session. This brought back the offending tab and its > popup window. There is also a long repeating audio message "critical > alert from Microsoft." And the mouse is disabled everywhere on Firefox. > > What is interesting is that this window and the tab cannot be closed. > In fact, I cannot close any of the tabs in any of the windows. But I > was able to bookmark each tab, so I could shut down Firefox and then > recreate my windows and tabs, except the offending tab, of course. > > I have never had an experience like this. I am curious how they hacked > Firefox so the user cannot close tabs or popups. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug