Firefox Alerts

December 15, 2004 1:25 PM

I'm using the latest Firefox, with a few basic plugins. In the past few days, I had these alert boxes that popping when clicking a link that only display a single digit and the 'ok' button. What's a' happenin'?

here's the box in question. this is an xp box, btw.

posted by moonbird to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Did you delete your old Firefox directory before installing the new one? That's a necessary step to ensure a clean install (and I've seen this kind of thing solve problems such as yours).
posted by Handcoding at 1:40 PM on December 15, 2004

It looks like someone left a bit of debugging code in their release. It's pretty common to insert a line that displays a variable value during runtime while working on some code. I can't think of a way to trace back the popup to the individual plugin, though. Your best bet is try to remember the last plugin you installed before the popups and remove it.
posted by PantsOfSCIENCE at 1:42 PM on December 15, 2004

Response by poster: i'm wondering if this the auto-fill plug in. i'll tinker, thanks!
posted by moonbird at 4:36 PM on December 15, 2004

I unpacked the auto-fill plugin, and grepped for an alert popup, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the code. Do you have any other plugins installed?
posted by Frankieist at 7:50 PM on December 15, 2004