On 17/09/18 21:54, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote: > We have several small networks, some of which have only four systems > that are usually a mix of Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machines. > All of these systems are Internet connected and updated regularly when > yum finds packages available. Information about one of the CentOS 6 > machines is included below. This system experienced a Firefox issue. > > [user at computer]$ uname -a > Linux computer 2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 14 20:46:41 UTC > 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [user at computer]$ > > Several weeks ago, one of the Firefox updates did something unusual. > It changed the browser-stored home page to https://www.centos.org/ from > the original home page file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. This > original home page had been in place since 2014, and had survived all > Firefox updates for a little over four years. > > Last week, someone left one browser running and the system went into > power save mode. To wake the system up we used the standard method of > a quick push of the power button on the front of the Dell tower system. > Although the system seemed to be running, the monitor and mouse never > came to life. We also could not ssh into the system from any other > computer on the network. > > We decided to use a steady push on the power button to shut the system > down. After powering up again, the system seemed to run normally, but > the browser home page was back to file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html. > > Has anyone else experienced such an issue with Firefox recently? I note each time there is a firefox yum update that the next time I start firefox from closed, that it brings up a tab with the centos homepage and another tab has my start page. The page on display (active tab) is the centos one .... next start is back to normal. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos