286366 - From google.com search results, hyperlinks don't open..but takes it back to google.com

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[LAL]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910


I am running a PC server with three nodes on the LAN. OS is WinXpPro. Proxy
server is WinProxy.  ZoneAlarm is functioning OK. All operations were normal
till 3 or 4 days back.

A problem has come up in the last four days as far as the NODES are concerned
when they use Mozilla brower 1.7.5. There is no problem when Internet Explorer
is used.

When they visit www.google.com and obtain the search results, if they click on
the hyperlinks shown in the search results page  Mozilla browser does not direct
them to the corresponding URL of the hyperlink. It takes them back to
google.com.  If they go to altavista.com or any other search engine, this does
not happen. That means Winproxy is not the problem. The problem persists even
when the firewall is switched off.

The server does not face this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.google.com
2.conduct a search for any item
3.Click on any result hyperlink in the page...it takes you back to www.google.com
It happens only with my two nodes. Not with the main server. If I use Internet
Explorer, there is no problem. WinProxy settings are OK.

Actual Results:  
Instead of being directed to the URLs corresponding to the hyperlink, the
nrowser takes me back to http://www.google.com

Expected Results:  
It should take me the URLs correwsponding to the hyperlink.

None

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 278189 "Firefox randomly and frequently throws google home page and 
google error page while using proxy"

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

open preferences, Advanced-> HTTP Networking
Set "Proxy Connection Options" to use HTTP 1.0
Delete cache

Does the problem go away then?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response