Anyone else having google search issues?

Yeah, maybe a fresh re-install of Firefox is needed. Backup your bookmarks and make note of the add-ons that you have installed.

OK, I right-clicked on the Avast systray icon and "paused" all of the providers. The problem then went away. I then re-enabled each of the providers one by one, checking google in-between. They are all re-enabled, and the problem is still not happening.

I have a feeling there was an issue with one of the "providers" in Avast, but by stopping/restarting it fixed itself.

That is interesting... I've been running Avast and Firefox for as long as I can remember and I have never seen this issue. I wonder if it's just co-incidence?

A few weeks ago at work, I typed senschirp.ca on the adress bar (internet explorer). And I got that exact same message. A few hours later, it worked fine.

So, it shouldn't have anything to do with Firefox, and nothing to do with Google either.

I wonder if it was a proxy setting that got messed up in Firefox. By disabling then re-enabling the providers, it may have re-built the proxy settings, thus fixing itself.

Weird, nonetheless.

marakh wrote:A few weeks ago at work, I typed senschirp.ca on the adress bar (internet explorer). And I got that exact same message. A few hours later, it worked fine.

So, it shouldn't have anything to do with Firefox, and nothing to do with Google either.

It actually does. It's Google mis-interpreting a request as coming from a "suspected" automated source, and thus they are trying to curb those requests and keep load in check.

Acrobat wrote:I wonder if it was a proxy setting that got messed up in Firefox. By disabling then re-enabling the providers, it may have re-built the proxy settings, thus fixing itself.

Weird, nonetheless.

The "provider" settings are part of Avast. Nothing to do with proxy settings, it's a virus scanner. The categories are Internet Mail, Instant Messaging, Network Shield, Outlook/Exchange, P2P Shield, Standard Shield and Web Shield. Not sure why they call them "providers".