plugincheck: or How my Firefox browser got hijacked by... well... Firefox.
Okay, hijacked by Mozilla.
I logged in to my Firefox browser a few days ago to be greeted by not only my home page but a new tab with a plugincheck page. Of course this came at a most inconvenient time and it noticeably slows down the start of the browser.
After a day or two of this I upgraded the offending plugin thinking that the plugincheck page would go away. You got'ta love optimistic thinking. The slow-loading Firefox with the plugincheck page is still there.
Maybe I can turn off the offending page in Tools --> Options --> Something-or-other? Nope. Nothing there.
A quick Google search indicates that there is no option within Firefox to disable or remove the plugincheck page. Mozilla has included and auto-enabled module, plugincheck with no way to stop or disable it. Brilliant!
It turns out that the fix is to do some minor Firefox application-file surgery. My decision is to do some major Firefox surgery after I setup another browser.
In any event, if you run into plugincheck, you have some work to do.
Joe Mobley
I logged in to my Firefox browser a few days ago to be greeted by not only my home page but a new tab with a plugincheck page. Of course this came at a most inconvenient time and it noticeably slows down the start of the browser.
After a day or two of this I upgraded the offending plugin thinking that the plugincheck page would go away. You got'ta love optimistic thinking. The slow-loading Firefox with the plugincheck page is still there.
Maybe I can turn off the offending page in Tools --> Options --> Something-or-other? Nope. Nothing there.
A quick Google search indicates that there is no option within Firefox to disable or remove the plugincheck page. Mozilla has included and auto-enabled module, plugincheck with no way to stop or disable it. Brilliant!
It turns out that the fix is to do some minor Firefox application-file surgery. My decision is to do some major Firefox surgery after I setup another browser.
In any event, if you run into plugincheck, you have some work to do.
Joe Mobley