Can a browser be hacked?
by Pedroski from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5EXS8)
I use Ubuntu 18.
For years I have used Firefox.
Lately, when I try to call baidu.com, the Chinese search engine, it often times out.
I thought, "There's no way the Chinese government is blocking Baidu! Maybe it's my internet connection?"
I installed Chromium.
baidu.com opens no problem in Chromium.
Now the funny part: I have a little webpage for giving homework and, because of the virus, also online class sometimes.
This morning, I opened my webpage in Chromium, everything OK.
Around lunchtime, I noticed that the font on my webpage had become some strange digital type font, hard to read.
I did not change any settings in Chromium, at least not that I know of.
I opened my webpage with Firefox. Everything normal.
How can the webpage font suddenly change in Chromium, without my input?
(I installed Opera now. Opera looks nice, and my webpage displays normally.)
For years I have used Firefox.
Lately, when I try to call baidu.com, the Chinese search engine, it often times out.
I thought, "There's no way the Chinese government is blocking Baidu! Maybe it's my internet connection?"
I installed Chromium.
baidu.com opens no problem in Chromium.
Now the funny part: I have a little webpage for giving homework and, because of the virus, also online class sometimes.
This morning, I opened my webpage in Chromium, everything OK.
Around lunchtime, I noticed that the font on my webpage had become some strange digital type font, hard to read.
I did not change any settings in Chromium, at least not that I know of.
I opened my webpage with Firefox. Everything normal.
How can the webpage font suddenly change in Chromium, without my input?
(I installed Opera now. Opera looks nice, and my webpage displays normally.)