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Not a problem using IE, but I like firefox better - faster & has adblock. I also get the "firefox has crashed" each time I close the browser, but that is not a major problem.

I have tried everything that supposedly clears my cache and it hasn't worked. Including a clear cache button. Well, I noticed something recently. This only seems to happen when I hover over a bookmark folder with TONS of bookmarks in it, or open up the downloads box and I haven't cleaned it up recently. So, really we need an addon to clear whatever cache holds all of the website icons displayed in our bookmarks or clear that memory sector up or whatever.

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So today I all of a sudden started having a ton of problems with Firefox. I'm using version 3.6.26 and a few things have gone wrong today.

First off, when watching YouTube videos (usually right as a new video is about to load) my Firefox sometimes freezes and I have to X the program out. This has happened frequently today and only on YouTube videos. I tried using Safe Mode and this still kept happening.

Second off, I keep getting a Crash message whenever I X out Firefox normally. This means that whenever I hit the red X in the top right corner of my browser, a couple of seconds later, I get the message that Firefox has crashed, asking me if I want to send a report. I have no idea why any of this has started randomly happening and it's gotten on my nerves.

Does anyone have a clue what I can do to fix this?

OS = Windows 7

When I visit a site like youtube whith private browsing enabled and with the add-on named "shockwave flash" in firefox add-on list installed and activate the flashplayer by going to a video the following files are created in the folder C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Temp\plugtmp-1

plugin-crossdomain.xml plugin-strings-nl_NL-vflLqJ7vu.xlb

The contents of plugin-crossdomain contain both the "youtube.com" adress as "s.ytimg.com" and is as follows:

-<cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="s.ytimg.com"/> <allow-access-from domain="*.youtube.com"/> </cross-domain-policy>

The contents of the other file I will spare you cause I think those are less common when I visit other sites but I certainly don't trust the file. The crossdomain.xml I see when I visit most other flashpayer sites as well.

I've also noticed multiple plugin-crossdomain-1.xml and onwards in numbers, I just clicked a youtube video to test, got 6 of them in my temp plus a file named "plugin-read2" (no more NL file cause I changed my country, don't know how youtube knows where I'm from, but that's another subject, don't like that either). I just noticed one with a different code:

-<cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="*"/> </cross-domain-policy>

So I guess this one comprimises my browsing history a bit less since it doesn't contain a webadress. If these files are even meant to be deposited in my local\temp folder. The bigger problem occurs when they stay there even after using private browsing, after clearing history, after clearing internet temporary files, cache, whatever you can think of. Which they do in my case, got more than 50 plugtmp-# folders in the previous mentioned local\temp folder containing all website names I visited in the last months. There are a variety of files in them, mostly ASP and XML, some just say file. I have yet to witness such a duplicate folder creation since I started checking my temp (perhaps when firefox crashes? I'd say I've had about 50 crashes in recent months).

I started checking my temp because of the following Microsoft Security Essential warnings I received on 23-4-12:

Exploit:Java/CVE-2010-0840.HE

containerfile:C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\jar_cache2196625541034777730.tmp file:C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\jar_cache2196625541034777730.tmp->pong/reversi.class

and...

Exploit:Java/CVE-2008-5353.ZT

containerfile:C:\Users\Noname\AppData\Local\Temp\jar_cache1028270176376464057.tmp file:C:\Users\Noname\AppData\Local\Temp\jar_cache1028270176376464057.tmp->Testability.class

Microsoft Security Essentials informed me that these files were quarantained and deleted but when going to my temp file they were still there, I deleted them manually and began the great quest of finding out what the multiple gigabytes of other files and folders were doing in that temp folder and not being deleted with the usual clearing options within firefox (and IE).

Note that I have set my adobe flasplayer settings to the most private intense I could think of while doing these tests (don't allow data storage for all websites, disable peer-to peer stuff, don't remember exactly anymore, etc.). I found it highly suspicious that i needed to change these settings online on an adobe website, is that correct? When right-clicking a video only limited privacy options are available which is why I tried the website thing.

After the inital discovery of the java exploit (which was discovered by MSE shortly after I installed and started my first scan with Malwarebytes, which in turn made me suspicious whether I had even downloaded the right malwarebytes, but no indication in the filename if I google it). Malwarebytes found nothing, MSE found nothing after it said it removed the files, yet it didn't remove them, manually scanning these jar_cache files with both malwarevytes and MSE resulted in nothing. Just to be sure, I deleted them anyways like I said earlier. No new jar_cache files have been created, no exploits detected since then. CCleaner has cleaned most of my temp folder, I did the rest, am blocking all cookies (except for now shortly), noscript add-on has been running a while on my firefox (V 3.6.26) to block most javascripts except from sites like youtube. I've had almost the same problem using similar manual solutions a couple of months ago, and a couple of months before that (clearing all the multiple tmp folders, removing or renaming jar_cache manually, running various antmalware software, full scan not finding a thing afterwards, installing extra add-ons to increase my security, this time it's BetterPrivacy which I found through a mozilla firefox https connection, I hope, which showed me nicely how adobe flash was still storing LSO's even after setting all storage settings to 0 kb and such on the adobe website, enabling private browsing in firefox crushed those little trolls, but still plugtmp trolls are being created, help me crush them please, they confuse me when I'm looking for a real threat but I still want to use flash, IE doesn't need those folders and files, or does it store them somewhere else?).

I'm sorry for the long story and many questions, hope it doesn't scare you away from helping me fight this. I suspect it's people wanting to belong to the hackergroup Anonymous who are doing this to my system and repeating their tricks (or the virus is still there, but I've done many antivirus scans with different programs so no need to suggest that option to me, they don't find it or I run into it after a while again, so far, have not seen jar_cache show up). Obviously, you may focus on the questions pertaining firefox and plugtmp folders, but if you can help me with any information regarding those exploits I would be extremely grateful, I've read alot but there isn't much specific information for checking where it comes from when all the anti-virus scanners don't detect anything anymore and don't block it incoming. I also have downloaded and installed process monitor but it crashes when I try to run it. The first time I tried to run it it lasted the longest, now it crashes after a few seconds, I just saw the number of events run up to almost a million and lots of cpu usage. When it crashed everything returned back to normal, or at least that's what I'm supposed to think I guess. I'll follow up on that one on their forum, but you can tell me if the program is ligit or not (it has a microsoft digital signature, or the name micosoft is used in that signature).

Version 3.6.x is approved by the Army Networthiness command and has a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN)and is also included in the Army Gold Master (AGM) baseline. Version 10 or 7,8,9 do not have a CoN. What is the difference between 3.6 (As it is still offered today) and version 10 which is the latest?

What are the default system proxy settings? How can I check what they currently are? How can I reset them back to the original values? The default network setting for FF is to use the system proxy settings, so FF must be able to read what the system settings are. Therefore, Mozilla must have a way of determining at least what the current system settings are. FF will no longer function with the current system settings. I'm quite certain that if my system proxy settings are reset to the defaults, that FF will once again work with it's default network setting of using the system proxy settings, and that all my other net programs will once again be able to access the net.

Hopefully some kind soul will be able to help me with this. Thank you, Gunther

Is it better to have Firefox remember passwords for sites or is it better to enter it manually each time? Which is more secure?

My computer requires a log-on password and I also have a master Firefox password that must be entered every time.

I still take this precaution even though I'm the only user at my house.

But what if the computer is hacked? Is it less secure that you have had Firefox remember the passwords and user names?

Also if someone stole the computer, can they remove the hard drive and access my data without my passwords?

On the Yahoo Homepage the day, date, and time are in another time zone as to the time zone that I an in PST. It changes to the next day at 9 pm and it is not even midnight yet.

Example: Thursday, February 16, 2012, then at 9 pm it will change to Friday, February 17, 2012, before it hits midnight on Friday, February 16, 2012. Please fix, and hopefully it is not affecting my e-mail....Please fix this issue

I am very nervous about upgrading because my URL history and tabs are very important to me. Anyone with experience with successful upgrade--or problems involved--would be helpful. Thank you.

My firefox page is now divided in 2 parts: on the top the standard page, on the bottom some (10-15) lines of text that begins: " the Custom SearchMenu Wizard make it easy...". That is to say that my page is always too little to contain all. The problem was born after last update. But I cannot eliminate it in any way. (I can submit an image - how?, were? to explain problem. Using Mac OS 10.5.8 on power mac and Firefox 3.6.26. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot. pmaccarrone@gmail.com

I do not favor toolbars and try to eliminate them as much as possible. I got rid of one recently and the toolbar disappeared but the space where the toolbar was remains. It is a wasted space and I would like to get rid of the space. Any suggestions?

Thanks. Sincerely, Delora

I Have been using Digital Persona Personal Suite >Finger print verification logins uptil firefox 3.6(Firefox was permiting the addon Digital PersonaExtension)But after that version firefox is not supporting this application and So I am still using the old Firefox without an Update .Pls tell whether the latest Firefox permits Digital Persona Addon

I recently starting experiencing problems with sites not loading in Firefox with the error "Connection was interrupted". I've consistently seen this problem trying to load accounts.google.com. The problem exists in both versions 3.6.26 (OS X 10.4 latest available) and 10.0.1 (Windows XP/7/server2k3). In every single case, other browsers on the same system (Safari, various IE versions) can load the same URLs just fine.

I've already verified no proxy (FF and working browsers, all OSes), disabled ipv6 and preteching in network.dns, disabled all add-ons, deleted existing profiles, cleared cache, and cleared recent history. Existing articles suggest disabling DNS prefetch,