[Leaplist] Intrusive and obstructive pop-up window with Firefox

[Jim Hartley]

Interestingly enough, Casey Research seems to be a site for investors in 
gold, silver, and other precious metals. Perhaps some adware was trying 
to send you there, but messed up because you were running Firefox 
instead of Internet Exploder?

Jim Hartley

John Simpson wrote:
> On 2009-02-28, at 1059, Homer Whittaker wrote:
>>
>> The following pop-up window has me completely  baffled
>>
>> ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!
>> ...
>> 6:SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias(\http://caseyresearch.com/displayDrp.php?e=true) 
>>
> 
> the message, and the function name "SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias", suggest 
> that a search engine plug-in is involved.
> 
> at the top right of the browser window is a text entry field where you 
> can do searches without having to manually visit "www.google.com" (or 
> whatever) first. at the left end of that window is a drop-list of search 
> engines, which normally has google and a few others (yahoo, ask.com, 
> etc.) on it, as well as an option to edit the list of search engines. 
> when you choose one of these search engines, anything you search for 
> using that field will be processed through that particular search engine 
> (so if you select google, anything you type in there will be searched 
> using google.)
> 
> there is also a mechanism which allows a web site to install a new 
> search engine plug-in to your browser. i say "plug-in" but it's really 
> just a label, a set of settings, and possibly an icon. my own list is 
> very short- google and wikipedia. (i think it had yahoo and a few others 
> pre-loaded when i installed firefox, but i removed them because i don't 
> really need them, and because i don't trust yahoo at all.)
> 
> a while back i wrote this web page, explaining how the mechanism works. 
> and as an example on the page, i wrote a search plug-in which looks up 
> call signs on QRZ.com and shows you the results without having to visit 
> the front page of the site first.
> 
> http://www.kg4zow.us/qrz.shtml
> 
> i suspect that if you look at the list of search engines, you'll find 
> one which is somehow associated with this "caseyresearch.com" site. my 
> suggestion is that you go into "manage search engines..." window, remove 
> that one, and see if that doesn't stop the window from popping up.
> 
> 
>> The pop--up intrudes when I attempt to bring up something using the 
>> latest Firefox Browser.
> 
> explain what "bring up something" means. be more detailed. does that 
> mean you're trying to type a URL into the location field, or type a 
> search term into the search entry field (again, the smaller entry box to 
> the right of the location field), selecting a bookmark, clicking a link 
> on an existing page, or any/all of the above?
> 
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