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Who the hell is Ed Novak and why did Firefox allow him to take control of my computer to put his custom tab add-on on my Firefox?

Met1
Met1
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I tried to get a new tab and all I could get was a page from Ed Novak saying that he wanted me to download his add-on to create a custom tab. I have disabled a preliminary version of his add-on allowing me to side step his email message. I cannot believe Firefox would allow someone to take control of its clients' computer.

I tried to get a new tab and all I could get was a page from Ed Novak saying that he wanted me to download his add-on to create a custom tab. I have disabled a preliminary version of his add-on allowing me to side step his email message. I cannot believe Firefox would allow someone to take control of its clients' computer.

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philipp
philipp
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hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-new-tab/ http://www.cs.wm.edu/~ejnovak/cnt