344920 - When the first Google search result is a Wikipedia page, it won't load

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 335909

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[tommyjb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060714 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060714 BonEcho/2.0b1

1. Go to the specified URL.
2. Left-click the link of the first Google result (which leads to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" at the time of writing).

Actual Results:
    A blank page loads.

Expected Results:
    The Fidel Castro Wikipedia page loads.

This seems to happen whenever the first Google result is a Wikipedia page.

This problem occurs with:

---Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060714 BonEcho/2.0b1
---Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060714 Minefield/3.0a1

This problem does not occur with 1.5.0.4.

Is this a dupe of bug 342119?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[tommyjb]

Further, it seems that after following the steps above, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro won't load at all -- even if I enter the URL into the address bar -- until I 'Clear Private Data', at which point the page *will* load if I enter the URL into the address bar.

Comment 2

[tommyjb]

Argh.  This is not reproducible always, after all -- it's now letting me view the page when I click the first Google result.

I wonder if that's because I've just cleared my private data?

Comment 3

[tommyjb]

If you are unable to reproduce this, please try a Google search with a different Wikipedia page as the first hit.  Currently I can't reproduce this with the Fidel Castro page, but I can with the Microsoft one: http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=microsoft+wikipedia.

Comment 4

[tommyjb]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 335909 ***

Comment 6

[tommyjb]

This does sound somewhat like bug 335909, but then that bug doesn't seem to touch on the "if the first Google result is a Wikipedia link then the link won't work" thing so much.  Hmm.

Comment 7

[tommyjb]

Just to point out that this is fixed now that bug 335909's patch has landed.