Website Warning

[hewjr1000]

I just had a horrible experience.

The following website <snip>

which I thought was a nudist site...yes i am one

has one of those "are you sure you want to navigate away boxes.

However there was not an "OK" box to click on, so I was unable to navigate away or close tab.

Closing browser and reopening browser brings you back to the site.

I had to purge firefox, use ubuntu tweak to delete cache and reinstall to remove this site.

Also in the future is there a way to force these type of sites to close? and not reopen.

Henry

[wacky_sung]

I just had a horrible experience.

The following website <snip>

which I thought was a nudist site...yes i am one

has one of those "are you sure you want to navigate away boxes.

However there was not an "OK" box to click on, so I was unable to navigate away or close tab.

Closing browser and reopening browser brings you back to the site.

I had to purge firefox, use ubuntu tweak to delete cache and reinstall to remove this site.

Also in the future is there a way to force these type of sites to close? and not reopen.

Henry
Yes do not go to porn site anymore.

[CharlesA]

Firefox has session recovery if the browser is closed unexpectedly.

You could have just hit the "x" on the alert and closed the tab manually.

EDIT: Also take a look at the noscript addon for firefox.

[hewjr1000]

Tried that it did not work, niether did file-quit

[CharlesA]

Could have just killed firefox and just clear the cache instead of purging ff and reinstalling it.

The cache is usually located in $HOME/.mozilla

[hewjr1000]

I see said the blind man.

Will do "if" it happens again

Henry

[emarkay]

Take a look at BleachBit, and at the same time, learn what is persistent and what is transient, and what you have absolutely no control over...

There are more things than just "oops, I didn't know that would happen" that can leave crumbs, but of course, if you are a consenting adult, and you are aware of all the tools both local and remote that can detail your activities, you will know what level of paranoia to settle at.

Google is your best friend to start with, then, maybe your worst enemy later.

[hewjr1000]

Taking a look at Bleachbit. sort of like ccleaner in windows.

Will look it over and decide.

Henry

[SeijiSensei]

It's a bit more paranoid, but NoScript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/) will often block these kinds of Javascript tricks. Having to review all the scripts on a site gets old fast, but you can whitelist sites you trust and block scripts on sites you don't.

[uRock]

AppArmor (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1008906), NoScript, (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/) and AdBlock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/) together make me feel safer when surfing the net.

[davidvandoren]

Doing dangerous searches and research. Visiting certain sites. Trying out third party software.

Virtualbox is perfect for that.