573436 - Google Search after installed new Firefox pulls up "download new version of Firefox"page

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

When I search anything or go to google web-page it re-directs me to download and install the new version of Firefox when i already had several times.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to google page or search in tolbar
2.web-page redirects you imediately/search something in the toolbar
3.automatically redirected
Actual Results:  
redirected to download and install Firefox page

Expected Results:  
search for what i wanted to search or go to the web-page

any theme including the default does it

Comment 1

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it also causes it to go the the "update and install new Firefox version" in Safari

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Please check your OS settings. Looks like a proxy is serving that page for all kind of browsers installed on your system. This doesn't sound like a Firefox bug.

Comment 3

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(In reply to comment #2)
> Please check your OS settings. Looks like a proxy is serving that page for all
> kind of browsers installed on your system. This doesn't sound like a Firefox
> bug.

how do i do that? it started happening to ALL browsers on my iMac after i installed the new version of firefox.

Comment 4

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(In reply to comment #2)
> Please check your OS settings. Looks like a proxy is serving that page for all
> kind of browsers installed on your system. This doesn't sound like a Firefox
> bug.

how do i do that? it started happening to ALL browsers on my iMac after i installed the new version of firefox.

Comment 5

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it also only happens to goolge search it works with all other toolbar searches. but it did ask me to do something for a certificate with the first google related thing i did.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Where have you downloaded this Firefox version?

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x 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.