[Building Sakai] gotcha with FCKEditor

[Nicola Monat-Jacobs]

Just wanted to send this around to everyone, since it's a pretty gnarly gotcha that effects FCKEditor, and thus, Sakai's WYSIWYG editor.

You're effected if you notice that after using the WYSIWYG editor with Firefox, strange html code shows up in your text boxes. 

< input type="hidden" id="gwProxy" >< !--Session data-- >< /input >< input type="hidden" id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" / >

Very strange and it seems impossible to remove.

Seem the culprit is a Firefox Add-On called "Browser Highlighter" - apparently some people enjoy using it for ebay searching.

But, you never installed this Add-On! It seems that this add-on is silently added by Skype without even asking the user's permission:

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/871907.aspx
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/reviews/display/11808?show=20&page=4

So far I think only Windows clients are effected.

Something for the kbase.....

Thanks,

Nicola Monat-Jacobs
Senior Technical Manager
The Longsight Group
nicola at longsight.com