If your plugin is activated firefox just hangs using googlemail or lotus notes webmail.

When I installed the extension my browsing speed slowed to a crawl, most site would take about 1-2 minutes to render/load the external files like CSS, images etc were taking the longest. Disabling the extension brought me back up to speed.

I just wanted to thank you for writing the Local Rodeo Firefox extension, and to urge you to improve and release it to the Firefox community at large. I think the work you're doing is important, especially as damn little security software is addressing this particular malware menace right now!

I use ZoneAlarm Pro to enforce "threshold control" on outgoing internet requests. A few days ago I noticed that after booting Firefox it was throwing up a new verification popup once every couple of minutes, always pointed at a new IP address. If I denied any of these requests Firefox would come to a grinding halt. To be repeatedly prompted to validate a back channel I didn't approve of was driving me nuts. I had to do something.

I started by collecting WHOIS reports on the addresses involved, hoping to understand who might be behind the phenom. But the companies involved didn't seem to have anything in common. I then ran Firefox in "safe" mode thinking one of the extensions might be the cause. Nada! So I proceeded to run various malware scanners including NOD32, F-Prot, Spyware Doctor, Trojan Hunter, etc. Bupkus! I noticed Opera wasn't having the same problem, and started thinking about moving to it, or de/reinstalling Firefox. But one of my searches turned up a page which mentioned "DNS Pinning" and that instantly struck me as relevant. A google search on "DNS Pinning" & "Firefox" quckly lead me to your LocalRodeo page, and that's what fixed this problem.

So thank you!

Btw, I see what looks like a possible "chink in the armor" which might be used to defeat LocalRodeo. The extension seems to work because ZoneAlarm is no longer popping up every two minutes to connect me to a corporate site I have no interest in. But I'm still being prompted once when I first start Firefox. So the code behind this exploit seems to be able to run once when Firefox boots. If that's true, it may also be possible for it to disable LocalRodeo before it has a chance to take hold.