There is an interesting new bug with Firefox 3 Beta 5, that sends a surfer through a redirect page after clicking on the Google search result. Here is how to reproduce the issue:
(1) Be in Firefox 3 Beta 5
(2) Be signed in to Google (you must be signed in to your Google account)
(3) Go to Google.com
(4) Enter the search term: [yahoo] or any other search term
(5) Click the first result (should be Yahoo! i.e. www.yahoo.com)
Then what happens is your are taken to a redirect page at Google.com as opposed to going directly to yahoo.com. Here is a screen capture of the redirect page:
We are not sure if it is just a Firefox bug or also a Google bug or both. There is a lot of discussion about this issue throughout the forum space.
Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums, Web Hosting Talk, Gamers With Jobs, and here is the Mozilla Bug Tracker.
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rustybrick in Other Google Topics at April 3, 2008 7:18 AM
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After a superantispyware complete search of all files it didn't find anything but some tracking cookies
But the tracking cookies were in the
C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile folder
(I'm guessing this is the profile the system service uses)
the cookies were back after superantispyware deleted them and rebooted
iexplore had the cookies locked (after a clean reboot)
using the most excellent software unlocker
www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Unlocker.shtml
I was able to unlock and delete the cookies (I deleted all the files in all the folders I found except user.dat (I left the folders)
my Google search is working again
By the way there was a redirect cookie in the folder
Back to normal and feeling lucky (Google pun)
Danny
Posted by Danny at September 17, 2008 05:47