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Is the Mozilla Humble Bundle pop-up a scam? Never saw it before today.

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Phil G
Phil G

I saw a strange pop-up today when I logged onto my computer and loaded up Firefox. It was on the usual sign-in / search page. It transformed the typical login page to an 80's style graphic, and has a blockish looking character telling me to 'click here'. It looks like a fraud and my be a virus, but want to know for sure. Is Mozilla sending this out and promoting some kind of "Humble bundle" of gaming software? Thanks.

I saw a strange pop-up today when I logged onto my computer and loaded up Firefox. It was on the usual sign-in / search page. It transformed the typical login page to an 80's style graphic, and has a blockish looking character telling me to 'click here'. It looks like a fraud and my be a virus, but want to know for sure. Is Mozilla sending this out and promoting some kind of "Humble bundle" of gaming software? Thanks.

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I was going to say Mozilla has nothing to do with Humble Bundle. However it looks like it is a new thing.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/14/mozilla-teams-up-with-humble-bundle-to-offer-firefox-and-chrome-users-eight-plugin-free-games/

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/10/14/play-awesome-indie-games-directly-in-firefox-including-the-award-winning-ftl/

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James (On Vacation)
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Chosen Solution

I was going to say Mozilla has nothing to do with Humble Bundle. However it looks like it is a new thing.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/14/mozilla-teams-up-with-humble-bundle-to-offer-firefox-and-chrome-users-eight-plugin-free-games/

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/10/14/play-awesome-indie-games-directly-in-firefox-including-the-award-winning-ftl/

Modified by James (On Vacation)

zeek99
zeek99

Change default start page (home page) to get rid of Humble

1. In Mozilla Firefox address bar write for example Google.com

2. Go to Options, choose General, click on Use Current Page

3. Then click OK

From now on you will have Google.com as START PAGE and get rid of looking at the stupid Humble start page !!!

maine15
maine15

Thank you. I did that and now i don't have a stupid moving cartoon to contend with.