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on crash firefox restore tabs loads a spam tab

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After firefox crashes and I select restore it restarts with all the open tabs at the time of the crash but also reloads what looks like a spam tab that I never had open.

Here is the URL of the tab that comes up on a restore

http://www.bestvideodownloader.com/SuccessMozilla

Don't know if this is something in FF or some malware I picked up somehow. In any case it has attached it self to FF I would love to see it gone.

After firefox crashes and I select restore it restarts with all the open tabs at the time of the crash but also reloads what looks like a spam tab that I never had open. Here is the URL of the tab that comes up on a restore http://www.bestvideodownloader.com/SuccessMozilla Don't know if this is something in FF or some malware I picked up somehow. In any case it has attached it self to FF I would love to see it gone.

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I guess its because of Easy YouTube Video Downloader add-on. Question is if it only shows its homepage... Anyway, I do not like this behaviour so Im considering uninstalling it.

Cheers, Tomek

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-> click Firefox button and click Options -> General -> When Firefox starts : select "Show My Home Page" and click Reset to Default button

Check and tell if its working.

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Asịsa Ahọpụtara

I guess its because of Easy YouTube Video Downloader add-on. Question is if it only shows its homepage... Anyway, I do not like this behaviour so Im considering uninstalling it.

Cheers, Tomek

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@TomaszP Is your Easy YouTube Video Downloader add-on working fine ?? I read on some threads that this add-on stopped working recently.. it was also causing some problems on Youtube like Videos not loading etc. See this post:

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/856001

Check and tell if its working.

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It's not my home page that all works fine. It only happens on a crash-restore FF.

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No errors, YouTube works fine and I'm able to download videos without any trouble. FF: 4.0.1, E.Y.V.D: 5.3

Tomek

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Thanks! I did not know that my Youtube downloader was same as the tab, but I just checked as it show the URL of the tab I get. So that has to be it.

That is really sneaky, to put this on the crash restore with "SuccessMozilla".

http://www.bestvideodownloader.com/SuccessMozilla

The page asks you for personal info too, name, email, age, etc...........

Why can't they just be honest!

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Im not sure about it, I haven't checked it yet but this extra tab is not opened each time after crash-restore. Maybe only when you've been watching youtube while FF crashed??

T

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Well I just tried it and it worked perfectly. Still, when people pull stuff like this it makes you wonder what else they have hidden in their products..........

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Not that I can tell. It seems to be there on every crash-restore which happens to me about twice a week if I don't close and restart FF every other day or so.

I know where it comes form now and knowing is half the battle. So I'll have to decide how much tolerance I have it Vs the downloader.