Hello all:
I am hoping to get some help with this one. I was using Firefox yesterday and clicked on a link to a site. The site opened in the background and my original page switched to another page. I closed Firefox, cleared all the history and cache and reopened. Now, if I simply type "myspace" in the address bar, I get redirected to a Domain Hosting site. If I type "nascar", I get nothing. If I type "cnn", it resolves correctly to html://www.cnn.com.
I am running 10.4.2 with the latest version of Safari and Firefox 1.5Beta1. This problem happens with both Safari and Firefox. I have dumped the preference files for both and it did resolve the issue. I also created a Guest account on my system and it does the same thing. This would indicate to me it is a system wide issue, not just my user account.
I have checked /etc/hosts and it contains the following:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
Any suggestions? I assume this has to be a file or setting that is independent of either browser, since it happens in both. I just don't know what to dump or edit to get this resolved.
I find it relatively interesting that this can occur under a *nix based system, so I hope to get it resolved.
Thanks in advance.
I am hoping to get some help with this one. I was using Firefox yesterday and clicked on a link to a site. The site opened in the background and my original page switched to another page. I closed Firefox, cleared all the history and cache and reopened. Now, if I simply type "myspace" in the address bar, I get redirected to a Domain Hosting site. If I type "nascar", I get nothing. If I type "cnn", it resolves correctly to html://www.cnn.com.
I am running 10.4.2 with the latest version of Safari and Firefox 1.5Beta1. This problem happens with both Safari and Firefox. I have dumped the preference files for both and it did resolve the issue. I also created a Guest account on my system and it does the same thing. This would indicate to me it is a system wide issue, not just my user account.
I have checked /etc/hosts and it contains the following:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
Any suggestions? I assume this has to be a file or setting that is independent of either browser, since it happens in both. I just don't know what to dump or edit to get this resolved.
I find it relatively interesting that this can occur under a *nix based system, so I hope to get it resolved.
Thanks in advance.