Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 22:21 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 7 October 2017 at 22:07, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Because firefox, in its malicious design, will not let the Home Page
> > be left  blank,  I entered the word "blank" for the Home Page, and it
> > goes to blank.com, which redirects to malicious web sites.
> 
> The correct way of getting a blank page is to use about:blank

Not only is this the correct way, it's ALWAYS been the correct way since
Netscape Navigator, 20 years ago.  Also, it's the correct way to get a
blank page in every single browser, not just Mozilla, including
proprietary browsers from Microsoft and Apple.