[Gloucs] Mandrake browser

[David & Sharon]

Found several entries in a file under 
./mozilla/default/3mho31pe.slt/55795946.s with a pile of https address' 
including 2 for Mandriva online. Deleted them and fingers crossed, touch 
wood etc. end of problem.

Thanks for all the help guys

David

Glyn Davies wrote:

> Paul Broadhead wrote:
>
>> David <david.sharon-copsegreenfarm at farming.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Had a problem with my browser and Mandrake/Mandriva, in that it 
>>> frequently diverts to the Mandrake user account registration page 
>>> instead of the page that is meant to come up. I use Mozilla, but it 
>>> is a problem with Epiphany as well. I keep telling myself that I 
>>> ought to pay up and register. Maybe it would cure the problem.
>>>
>>> Anyone any ideas?
>>>
>>
>> If I understand the problem correctly, I can see two possible reasons.
>>
>> 1) Something the the domain lookup process is doing the redirect and I
>> have no idea how you can stop that. If someone understands the domain
>> name lookup process then may be they can help.
>>
>> 2) It's built into the browsers somehow. If they are included with the
>> disto then that's possible. If this is the case then you could download
>> a browser binary directly from say mozilla and give that a try.
>>
>>
> Might as well add my tuppence worth
>
> The behavior sounds the same as when you start a factory shipped 
> browser for the first time on a new install. Obviously Mandrake, Red 
> Hat et al want you to come to their website to sell you something - 
> typically support. I guess there are a few ways they can achieve this: 
> 1) open the browser with the URL they want you to see as an argument, 
> 2) compile into the browser their URL to open the first time the 
> browser is run by a user, 3) have a button(s), key press combination 
> or mouse/key combination that opens their URL. There are of course 
> sneakier things they could code into the browser but I think they 
> would cause uproar in the user community.
>
> Given the above, does the page come up when you open mozilla by an 
> icon. If so, check you are open mozilla with arguments (check the 
> icon's action). Can mozilla read/write to your home directory when the 
> .mozilla directory is (I assume) the evidence it has been run before. 
> If the user sign website comes up when you are browsing, check you 
> haven't accidentally assigned a key sequence to a bookmark pointing to 
> that page (I did something similar IIRC with CTRL-T by accident - well 
> I broke my Tabbed drowsing). The classic would be CTRL-V/SHIFT-INSERT; 
> the typical 'paste' key codes.
>
> After that, my ideas start getting fanciful/unlikely. Hope the above 
> helps in some way. I doubt registering will help. I'd check Google 
> Groups for other Mandrake users having a whinge.
>