538763 - Attempting to load this website takes me to a completely different website (The site for St Rose's Catholic Infants' School); The URL works correctly in Internet Explorer.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rod]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB6

See summary above.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter URL in address bar or click a link to Nascot Wood Infants' School
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Actual Results:  
It doesn't matter whether you manually enter the URL or click a link to the school the incorrect website is opened.  If IE is used (either way) then the correct website is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Actual result says it all.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100109 Minefield/3.7a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20100109042837.
What do you get redirected to?
Does this happen in safe mode or a new profile? Have you scanned your computer for malware?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 2

[Rod]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre)
> Gecko/20100109 Minefield/3.7a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20100109042837.
> What do you get redirected to?
> Does this happen in safe mode or a new profile? Have you scanned your computer
> for malware?
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Redirected to another school site (genuine).
Same thing happens in Safe Mode and with a different profile.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.