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From: Michael L Kankiewicz on 15 Jan 2010 08:46

10.4.11, Firefox. Can anyone tell me what the following file is/does?
Even if I clear my History, every time I open the browser it shows up
as the next item in History (after my homepage) without even having gone
to it. Opening it gives a blank page. Thanks everyone.

file:///Users/(name)/Library/Application/ApplicationSupport/Firefox/Profiles/d
66vv14.default/GoogleToolbarData/components/suggest_window.html
From: Tom Harrington on 15 Jan 2010 12:30
In article
<Pine.SOC.4.64.1001150834500.24841(a)ubunix1.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
Michael L Kankiewicz <michaelk(a)buffalo.edu> wrote:

> 10.4.11, Firefox. Can anyone tell me what the following file is/does?
> Even if I clear my History, every time I open the browser it shows up
> as the next item in History (after my homepage) without even having gone
> to it. Opening it gives a blank page. Thanks everyone.
>
> file:///Users/(name)/Library/Application/ApplicationSupport/Firefox/Profiles/d
>
> 66vv14.default/GoogleToolbarData/components/suggest_window.html

The name strongly suggests that you have installed Google Toolbar for
Firefox, and that this is part of that component. Is it causing you
some kind of trouble?

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Michael L Kankiewicz on 15 Jan 2010 13:15
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Tom Harrington wrote:

> In article
> <Pine.SOC.4.64.1001150834500.24841(a)ubunix1.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
> Michael L Kankiewicz <michaelk(a)buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
>> 10.4.11, Firefox. Can anyone tell me what the following file is/does?
>> Even if I clear my History, every time I open the browser it shows up
>> as the next item in History (after my homepage) without even having gone
>> to it. Opening it gives a blank page. Thanks everyone.
>>
>> file:///Users/(name)/Library/Application/ApplicationSupport/Firefox/Profiles/d
>>
>> 66vv14.default/GoogleToolbarData/components/suggest_window.html
>
> The name strongly suggests that you have installed Google Toolbar for
> Firefox, and that this is part of that component. Is it causing you
> some kind of trouble?

Yes - But I've had theGoogle Toolbar for months now, at least, and this
thing just showed up this week. I don't know if it's causing any problems
or not, but it's strange that it shows up even in a brand new History
without having gone to it.

MK



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From: Tom Harrington on 15 Jan 2010 13:59
In article <Pine.SOC.4.64.1001151312020.8080(a)ubunix2.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
Michael L Kankiewicz <michaelk(a)buffalo.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Tom Harrington wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <Pine.SOC.4.64.1001150834500.24841(a)ubunix1.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
> > Michael L Kankiewicz <michaelk(a)buffalo.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> 10.4.11, Firefox. Can anyone tell me what the following file is/does?
> >> Even if I clear my History, every time I open the browser it shows up
> >> as the next item in History (after my homepage) without even having gone
> >> to it. Opening it gives a blank page. Thanks everyone.
> >>
> >> file:///Users/(name)/Library/Application/ApplicationSupport/Firefox/Profile
> >> s/d
> >>
> >> 66vv14.default/GoogleToolbarData/components/suggest_window.html
> >
> > The name strongly suggests that you have installed Google Toolbar for
> > Firefox, and that this is part of that component. Is it causing you
> > some kind of trouble?
>
> Yes - But I've had theGoogle Toolbar for months now, at least, and this
> thing just showed up this week. I don't know if it's causing any problems
> or not, but it's strange that it shows up even in a brand new History
> without having gone to it.

Well, I don't know how Google Toolbar works internally, but I don't see
any reason to correlate this files existence with history entries.
Google Toolbar probably checks for the file when it loads, and creates
the file if it's not there.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
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