{"id":498,"date":"2010-12-26T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wb4eje.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2011-01-10T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:49:54","slug":"microsoft-does-me-a-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft does me a &#8220;favor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I opened my browser on my netbook to check my mail noticed that Firefox looked different.\u00a0 Not sure how is happened, but I now have a &#8220;Bing&#8221; search toolbar and Bing was set as my default search engine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_499\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bing1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-501\" title=\"bing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bing1-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bing1-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/bing1.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new look for my browser<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I always use Firefox for my browser to prevent happenings like this.\u00a0 IE is constantly being updated and is the target of many toolbar additions.\u00a0 Even with Firefox you have to pay attention when even downloading updates for the Java runtime or you will get additional toolbars installed.\u00a0 But in this case, I don&#8217;t actually recall going to Bing or to any Microsoft sites, but apparently I did.<\/p>\n<p>Is this just a &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; from Microsoft?<\/p>\n<p>A couple of simple adjustments and all is back to normal.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t seen this with Firefox before!\u00a0 Be careful out there!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Bob\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I opened my browser on my netbook to check my mail noticed that Firefox looked different.\u00a0 Not sure how is happened, but I now have a &#8220;Bing&#8221; search toolbar and Bing was set as my default search engine. I always use Firefox for my browser to prevent happenings like this.\u00a0 IE is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}