![]() No one is spying on you certainly not Mozilla. I suspect something very sinister is going on.įirst, unless you are joking here, you need to get a grip. ![]() And this is just 10 minutes into my first session!!Ĭan you believe this? So Firefox or Mozilla.what the hell is going on? Can you tell me? Are you spying on me and monitoring my movements back and forth from my own laptop? Because how else do you explain why this keeps happening like this? It is simply too freaky for words!! Surely it cannot be a coincidence EVERY SINGLE TIME because I spend totally varying lengths sat at my laptop before getting up and walking out of the room, and yet this pop up box never ONCE appears on the screen UNTIL AFTER I am out of my room, even for just a few seconds. then carry on regardless and do about 10 minutes browsing online, THEN get up to walk out of the room.and then come back and.sure enough, that pesky error message about 'failing to update' is there again. Likewise, I switch on my computer and open the browser and then see the initial little pop up in the top right corner reminding me about downloading and installing Firefox 40.0.3. it's only when I leave the room and come back will it be there.guaranteed. #Firefox 40.0.3 cannot download anything full#I can sit at my laptop for an hour, maybe more, and give it my FULL undivided attention and, you know, that pop up will NOT appear once. There is NO specific time frame for it to appear even if I sat waiting for it to do so.it ONLY appears on my screen when I leave the room (like it's kinda watching and monitoring my movements or something, which is why I am finding this very disconcerting, if not downright sinister) so that the moment I return to my desk there it is - slap bang in the center, bold as brass, on my browser window. Before others start saying that, "oh, that pop up surely must appear after a certain length of time, say 10 minutes or whatever, by default" - I can contradict you straight away : no it doesn't. HOWEVER.bear with me.there's more, much more: this pop up box (see image attached) doesn't just appear at any time whilst I'm browsing live, oh no, it appears as if by magic just MOMENTS AFTER I LEAVE MY LAPTOP UNATTENDED - such as walking out of the study to use the toilet, or when my gaze is averted from the screen and I have to pick something up off the floor. #Firefox 40.0.3 cannot download anything update#Well, DID I ACTUALLY ASK I IT TO DO THIS? DID I AUTHORIZE ANY AUTOMATIC UPDATE ON MY SYSTEM CONFIG? NO! So why does it keep appearing ? Now, that isn't the big problem I'm getting at here, it's THIS: during my time online whilst using the browser a much larger central pop up box will appear slap bang in the middle of my browser window telling me that I do not have the "required system permissions" to carry out the automatic update of Firefox as requested. So far I have clearly refused because I can pre-empt that the moment I DO update my v39.0 to v40.0.3, it will then start badgering me about yet another update - version 41 or something!! Anyway, it continues to pester me every time I load my application / open the browser - there it is on the top right hand corner in a little pop up box - asking me to update and download/install version 40.0.3. ![]() So far, I've gone through versions 38 and 39 in quick succession, now of course the current version 40 is at 40.0.3 - and this is what the reminder pop-up keeps asking me to update to. What it is is this: I am on a Macintosh system OS 10.6.8 Leopard, and each time I update my Firefox browser to the previous version, the automatic pop up box on the right tells me to update to the NEXT available version merely days after I have done so. Can anybody else provide an explanation for something which has been bugging the hell out of me for the last few weeks and is now leading me to suspect that Firefox can somehow *spy* on your movements whilst you're online at your laptop? This is getting extremely concerning - not to mention creepy.
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