{"id":1695,"date":"2012-04-26T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2012-04-26T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T08:52:12","slug":"what-is-skipity-and-why-is-it-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/what-is-skipity-and-why-is-it-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Skipity and why is it in FireFox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mostly use Google Chrome these days, but still have Mozilla FireFox installed as a browser, which used to be my standard browser before I switched to Chrome. <\/p>\n<p>Today I launched FireFox again and was surprised to see something called Skipity in its toolbar. Furthermore, when I tried to go to my browser custom start page (a page with my most useful links) it took me to the Skipity website. A Google search showed that Skipity comes as part of an add-on called &#8220;Download Youtube video 12.0&#8221;. I removed that add-on, restarted FireFox, opened the URL I previously had as the browser start page and went to &#8220;Tools > Options > General > Startup&#8221; to select that URL as the start page again. <\/p>\n<p>Any software that changes the start page of the browser without your consent should be permanently banned from your computer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mostly use Google Chrome these days, but still have Mozilla FireFox installed as a browser, which used to be my standard browser before I switched to Chrome. Today I launched FireFox again and was surprised to see something called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/what-is-skipity-and-why-is-it-in-firefox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}