Re: updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@verizon.net>]

Dear fellow debianers,

Thank all of you for answering my question.

It was very informative to see that the behavior arose from a
careless? configuration assumption that assumes
http://firefox/ will
resolve to the real mozilla site.

But more fundamentally-
 
1) why should my browser ever directed to mozilla.com at all?
2) And why now every restart of firefox?

I recall now:
After every previous debian firefox/iceweasle package update 
i was also directed  to mozilla.com
and only then only once. Afterwards it used my (local) home page - 
just the way i wanted it to.

It is as if the browser is programmed
to  "report back" to home at least once.


So I thought- maybe now, because it is unsuccessful in connecting to mozilla.com
the browser  is repeatedly 
trying to reach http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/.

So I tried to "report back home" manually 
(ie i tried by log in directly to mozilla via 
go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/).

But alas. Still on every start of iceweasel
it goes to http://firefox/ which is resent to an advertizing  search site.

Any more ideas?

Mitchell