As it says in the title, when I opened Firefox earlier today, a new tab opened reminding me of a Black November sale for Browsec, a service I’ve never heard of before. Why does this happen? I’m not a control freak, but I also don’t want random pages to pop up when using my browser.
EDIT: Here is a link to the screenshot.
EDIT 2: Quick check at whois.com confirmed that it’s indeed a domain owned by Amazon. I can only guess It’s some promotional deal between Mozilla and Amazon.
I will mark this post as solved since I don’t want to invest more time into this. Thanks for the replies.
I would bet it’s the add-on closest to the hamburger menu in your screenshot. It appears to be the same globe logo.
Extensions can open pages.
I’m on Ubuntu 20.04 and I don’t use any application that would do this.
Here is a screenshot of the page that popped up.
EDIT: Sorry, I don’t have this addon installed.
it wasn’t, I posted link to the screenshot of the page in the comment below.
From your screenshot I see you have an icon in your toolbar (next to the hamburger menu) that looks very much like the Browsec VPN extension icon, and that add-on does currently cause that web page to appear.
You are right and I’m a fool for not seeing that. Thank you.