1238700 - Google search keeps refreshing in Firefox even in Safe mode

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[dave]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20160105164030

Steps to reproduce:

went to google website searched for News 


Actual results:

Google search displayed results however the webpage kept refreshing until I google displayed a webpage warning about suspicious activity from my pc on google.  


Expected results:

results displayed without the webpage constantly being refreshed.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

Try the https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode.

Comment 2

[Colin Howell]

I had this problem too (as did many others, it seems), but as it turns out, the problem was on Google's end, affecting all browsers for anyone using a Google account. They fixed it yesterday.

Links to discussions:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/VTpBxfyT1kQ;context-place=topicsearchin/websearch/refresh|sort:date

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/40jduk/google_search_loop_problem_across_all_oss_and/

Comment 3

[Paul Pasca[Away. Please needinfo? Paul Oiegas [:pauloiegasSV]]]

Hi Dave,

Is your issue the same as in comment 2? Does this still happen?

Thanks,
Paul.

Comment 4

[Loic]

GG issue.