"Ian Douglas" alug@the-zub.demon.co.uk writes:
MJ Ray wrote:
Not seen that. Try looking through the preferences, especially the Advanced/Proxy ones. No idea why it would suddenly happen, though.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your suggestion. Yes, it is confusing me too as I have not touched the Mozilla preferences since I originally set it up ages ago, and certainly not during the three minute gap while I checked my emails last night, though that does not mean of course that there may be a fundamental mistake in my settings which has only now come to light!
Try quitting mozilla, moving your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way (e.g. 'mv .mozilla .mozilla.save') and starting mozilla.
If the problem persists then it's definitely nothing to do with your preferences. But if it goes away then it may be a function of your preferences - possibly something you set and forgot about, but also possibly something that has become corrupted (which might be caused by a Mozilla bug, an OS bug, a hardware fault, or who knows what).
To restore you old settings, quit mozilla, remove any newly created ~/.mozilla and move the old one back into place. (If you just try to move it back without removing the newly created one, you'll not get the effect you want.)