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   Message 11,147 of 13,597   
   Roy Witt to Ed Vance   
   Firefox Allow Button   
   09 Sep 14 16:14:43   
   
   Greetings Ed!   
      
    EV> 09-04-14 16:06 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Firefox Allow Button   
      
    EV>> Can anyone suggest a setting I can change in Firefox 31.0 Options so   
    EV>> all the WebMail sites I use never asks me to click a Allow button?   
      
    RW>> Options, General, Accessibility, unclick "Warn me when websites   
    RW>> try to redirct or reload a page".   
      
    EV> Thank You Roy,   
      
   De nada   
      
    EV> I appreciate You telling me what the cause of the message and the   
    EV> Allow button I see when I Sign Off of AT&T Web Mail is but I would   
    EV> rather have that option Checked so I will be notified when   
    EV> redirections occur.   
      
   Then you will see it on every site that re-directs you to another website.   
   Sometimes it's not a bad thing, but then sometimes it is. It is also a   
   dangerous way to browse the internet and keep your computer free of   
   re-directing you to a site where you can pick up malware.   
      
    EV> But why ONLY AT&T Web Mail and NOT my other Web Mail accounts when I   
    EV> Sign OFF from them?   
      
   AT&T must be sending you to a 'sign in' page or similar. My bank does that   
   too after I go online and pay my bills via Epay. Which must be accessed   
   from my bank's website. Dunno why they're linked that way.   
      
    EV> I see the same message and Allow button on the Bar appear on the   
    EV> screen for only an instant and then it vanishes and I see the Web   
    EV> Mail Home Page for those accounts show up in Firefox, without having   
    EV> to Click the Allow button when I use those accounts.   
      
   If you press the 'Allow' button provided by the re-direction, you may be   
   surprised at what that will get you. I was allowed to be re-directed to a   
   XXX porn site by doing that. I know that you and I don't have any young   
   children in the house, but what if your grandchildren are using your   
   computer while visiting you.   
      
    EV> Why I don't get troubled when I Exit Web Mail on those accounts but   
    EV> AT&T Web Mail always does that is strange to me.   
      
   Disallow it sometime and find out.   
      
    EV> Computers ARE strange things.   
      
   They're subject to: Garbage in = garbage out.   
      
       Have a day!   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
      
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