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======================================================================================================================= On 10-08-13 2:04 PM, Neil wrote: I have a small selection of themes installed, and change the look of Firefox by choosing among them from time to time. Today, as I started Firefox, I got a message that there was a new version of the Aquatint Black theme from Virtus Designs, and OK'ed upgrading it as part of the starting process. I became suspicious because just before the Add-On window disappeared, I saw another upgrade being installed that I new nothing about. Then, when Firefox opened, I did not get my usual home page, but a page from Virtus Designs, advertising an opt-in for Bing as the default search engine. I closed that page immediately, so I cannot tell you what the opt-in process is. But to me that does not matter, because I did not authorize Virtus to take over my home page and I certainly did request an ad for Bing. I also uninstalled all the Virtus themes I had installed, so that my home page does not get hijacked again (at least by them). Has anyone else had problem or a similar one? Is there a way to prevent the add-on upgrade process from being abused like this? Are you sure it wasn't just that instance? After you update Firefox, the first time you run it, it will open a "firstrun" page to get you familiar with the new version. That only happens the one time, and doesn't change your homepage setting. Add-ons can do this to. I've seen the Sync add-on do it, and IIRC foxytunes. So did the Virtus Designs page appear more than once? -- Chris Ilias < http://ilias.ca > List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia _______________________________________________ support-firefox mailing list supp ... @lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-firefox To unsubscribe, send an email to supp ... @lists.mozilla.org ?subject=unsubscribe