Re: Run away brower

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:08 +0000, John Merryman wrote:
> Greetings all from a new Linux user.
> 
> I had a very odd occurance while using GNome with the default web
> browser.

Talking about epiphany, I assume?

> After opening the browser, it continue to launch browser after browser
> - totaling over one hundred, faster than I could close them. The
> behavior struck me as a possible virus, so I wiped everything and
> re-instalkled from scratch. This was a good thing since I learned
> which packages I really do not need to install - since I installed
> everything the first time. Has this ever happend to anyone else?

Hmm, didn't happen to me, and doesn't ring a bell also.

Did you use epiphany before? Could it possible have saved the last
session with multiple windows, now trying to restore it? Which website
did you display, if any? (Going berserk javascript, by any chance?)

FWIW, this doesn't necessarily sound like a virus to me, but either a
bug in the browser code (first time run?) or a badly designed website.
(Pop-up windows, anyone? ;-)


So I take it, building GARNOME again solved this issue? Which version is
this? Also, can you reproduce this? Possibly with a clean testing user
account, who did not start that browser ever before -- if this was the
situation for you. If you can reproduce this, please file a bug against
the relevant application.

Good news: This does not seem to be related to GARNOME. ;-)

...guenther


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