a little while back, firefox had an issue where all of the plugins stopped working due to a verification issue. i installed the developer edition of firefox to get around it, and never switched back to the regular version.

there's this thing it does called "servicing" where websites can push information down to the browser, and i found a list of sites, some sketchier looking than others. but this is apparently also a known exploit because the information is easily intercepted and spoofed.

there were some weird text documents showing up in my user directory, with sites i'd never been to in them.

i have turned that off as best i can and the text documents appear to have stopped. we'll need to see if that works or not.

....but this dry air makes me so tired....zzzzzzzzz.......