[UNRELATED] Firefox 29 and MS Office unusual problem

[Longboard]

I am having an unusual problem and looking for help.

If anyone has time, could you read these:
hxxps://productforums.google.com/forum/ ... wuH1qC9fKQ
hxxps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/quest ... wer-586527
hxxps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/974954
hxxps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1004509

I dont know what is happening here.
Locking no script down as tight as possible and still the extar winow to 69a opens.

Any insights please

[barbaz]

Anything look weird in about:support or about:plugins?
What if you try a "not major" Gecko-based browser such as SeaMonkey or PaleMoon instead of Firefox?

Not sure how much help we can give since this isn't a NoScript issue - other than to recommend that you keep NoScript installed and be VERY careful what scripts you allow (in case there's more to your issue than what you're seeing atm).

[Longboard]

Thank you
I'll try
Been on FF for years
I'm not sure it's NoScript either, but usually, in my experience NOScript can stops any such misbehavior
Regards

[Guest]

Oh, sorry, looked at plugins and support: nothing amiss afaics

[therube]

For reference:

Really need help please...

Problem with FF and MS Office ?? malware related

[barbaz]

For some reason this reminds me of viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3005

[barbaz]

@Longboard: Can you test this theory by going to about:config and changing the prefs

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browser.fixup.alternate.prefix

and

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browser.fixup.alternate.suffix

to any custom value you want (that you will recognize if you see it), then retrying the steps in MS Office that reproduce the problem?

[Longboard]

There has been an interesting reply at my thread @mozilla support from FireFoxOffice365user: scroll down or go to answer link.
https://support.mozilla.org/ta/questions/1004509
https://support.mozilla.org/ta/question ... wer-587619

So ...?? Interesting

Sorry,I'm not sure what to do in the about:config options as suggested above ??
I can get there and see the www & .com settings, but change to what ??

[barbaz]

Sorry,I'm not sure what to do in the about:config options as suggested above ??
I can get there and see the www & .com settings, but change to what ??

It would be just a temporary change to verify that poster is correct (i.e. that indeed Firefox is tacking the specified prefix and the specified suffix onto what it thinks is the requested domain name). So you could use say "FOO" for one and "BAR" for another, doesn't really matter what you use in this case.

[Longboard]

OK
Changed the values

Launched the Office button: two tabs popup: the correct Office sign in page and another tab that goes nowhere.
IE: the tab just shows "connecting" and never resolves.

So not sure what that means.
I'm out of depth here.
LOL: have been from beginning.

regards.

[barbaz]

OK
Changed the values

Launched the Office button: two tabs popup: the correct Office sign in page and another tab that goes nowhere.
IE: the tab just shows "connecting" and never resolves.

So not sure what that means.

Look at the URL of the "dead" tab (switch to it then read what's in the address bar). Does its domain contain the "fake" prefix & suffix you entered in the about:config prefs? If so, now you know that poster is correct and this whole thing is just stupidly bad programming on MS' part .

[Longboard]

Well, well ...

Using plain "foo" and "bar" gets this

Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at foo.69abarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbar ...........Bar.com

Putting some 'dots' in get this

Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at foo.69a.bar.

How 'bout dat ??

now you know that poster is correct and this whole thing is just stupidly bad programming on MS' part

Kudos +++

So, know we know ??

Regards