OK - I "sort of" solved this by installing an extension - Speed Dial 2 - in Chromium.
But I still have no idea why it happened in the first place. On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:21:34 +0300 Shlomo Solomon <shl...@the-solomons.net> wrote: > A small correction to what I wrote. The problem happens when I click > "New Tab" to the right of the open tabs - NOT when I click Home. > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:08:05 +0300 > Shlomo Solomon <shl...@the-solomons.net> wrote: > > > I'm using Chromium 51.0.2704.103 on Mageia 5. > > My homepage is set to www.google.com > > > > Today, for no reason that I can see, when I click on the home > > button, seemingly "random" pages open, with one thing in common. > > They all look similar to Google (white background, search window > > etc), but instead of the Google logo, I see the word SEARCH in the > > colors of the Google logo. > > > > If I actually type www.google.com, I get to Google. The problem is > > only when I click on the home icon. > > > > I tried clearing cache, browser history etc but no change. > > I changed my home page to www.ynet.co.il, and I still get the > > "random" SEARCH sites. > > > > Has anyone seen this behaviour? > > > > I'm including a few of the sites I've been reaching. Notice that > > many (but not all) are from .ru: > > > > http://miyake-inc.com/i/searchsss.html > > http://safesearch5.ru/stm.html > > http://mystartpage1.ru/i/start.html > > http://mystartpage6.ru/blank.html > > http://wzscnet.com/i/startm.html > > http://safesearch4.ru/startss.html > > http://safesearch3.ru/startt.html > > > > > > > > > > > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.5 - LINUX Mageia 5 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
