Pseudo Flash utility FNVFox invades like a vampire.
In a strange / bizarre sort of crash I found that 3 of 3 FF instances had loaded this page: http://www.fnvfox.com/
Snooping, I found it trampolined from http://fnvfox.appspot.com/ SiteRank from last summer: https://twitter.com/SiteRank_Today/status/628761115950886912
Here's the last of 3 or 4 tweets. https://twitter.com/hfx_ben/status/702678944974114817
Can we not delete entries in about:config? I realize that's horrifically dangerous, but ... seemed to me that toggling all to False was thin soup.
--bentrem
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Sorry, forgot my point: Since there were so many entries in about:config I think that this disease should get some attention.
^5
These entries look that they were added by an extension that is or was installed. When you uninstall an extension then prefs that were added by that extension can be leftover if they appear user set (bold) and in such a case you need to reset them via the right-click context menu to the default value or edit the prefs.js file if there are a lot of lines like in this case.
Was that extension installed in the Firefox profile folder (i.e. had a Remove button) or installed globally (no Remove; only disable)?
I would guess that this monstrosity hooked in when I installed some free software. Which I don't do often, but you know how these bottom feeders really do sophisticate their methods.
Extensions? I'm parsimonious to the point of near paranoia.
"Was that extension installed in the Firefox profile folder" ... "That" extension? Which extension are you referring to?
If it comes down to hacking prefs then naive user have more/left abandoned. IMNSHO, of course.
Flash and Video Download, also known as, Download Flash and Video.
It's f 'n v, get it?
By the way, extension settings are never removed, probably to allow you to uninstall and reinstall extensions without having to start from scratch. There might be something like a registry cleaner for stray extension preferences, but I've never looked for one. One destined to leave its own preferences when you uninstall it.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or what. fnvfox.com isn't Macromedia. Get it? There's not good reason for http://fnvfox.appspot.com to hijack any functionality. Are you quibbling with that?
As for the information about extensions, thanks for that. But for sure at least surplus to requirement. Perhaps your interests have taken over from OP.
2016 and still anytime I set foot in @Mozilla territory it turns out like this.
SigInt interdicting Soviet assets. NORAD/SAC babysitting 25yr old microwave systems. Broacasting, MCR for national A network. MilSpec avionics R&D.
I can see why I have such crap performance from FF. (Ever since Netscape 3.0)
Fed up. Sorry I bothered. pffffft
Let me try again with a fuller explanation:
fnv = f 'n v = f and v
That is the home site of the extension you installed called, variously:
- Flash and Video Download
- Download Flash and Video
As long as you leave that extension installed, you may find it promoting its site in various ways. If you don't like that, and if it doesn't have options to manage its self-promotion, you should remove it.
The screenshot shows that you have installed the Download Flash and Video extension.
This is the home page of that extension:
So all the references you see to that website are because you installed that extension. You would have to uninstall that extension and reset all preferences that it created via the right-click context menu to the default value to have them removed on the next start of Firefox.