At random times firefox loads an unrequested page. Sometimes it is the Google search page but more often it is a random page which sometimes loads or stays blank. I do not recognise them as sites from my directory. Otherwise Firefox works well. Any su

At random times firefox loads an unrequested page. Sometimes it is the Google search page but more often it is a random page which sometimes loads or stays blank. I do not recognise them as sites from my directory. Otherwise Firefox works well. Any suggestion for a cure?
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== one month ago

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I think this may not be a browser problem but rather a Google problem.
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Add-ons: {CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0024-ABCDEFFEDCBA}:6.0.24,{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0026-ABCDEFFEDCBA}:6.0.26,{4ED1F68A-5463-4931-9384-8FFF5ED91D92}:3.4.0,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.6.23
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EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email: [email protected]
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1317382785
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 402
StartupTime: 1318035938
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
URL: http://www.google.com/
Vendor: Mozilla
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How do I stop firefox from redirecting every page I click on in Google search? No matter what I search for in Google when I click on it Firefox redirects me to some other search, sales, or contest page. I have a security program running, no maleware, adware, or virus on my pc. Thanks for the help in advance.

Sounds like a dose of search redirect malware or a redirect virus.
Install, update, and run these programs in this order. They are listed in order of efficacy. '''''(Not all programs detect the same Malware, so you may need to run them all to solve your problem.)''''' These programs are all free for personal use, but some have limited functionality in the "free mode" - but those are features you really don't need to find and remove the problem that you have. 
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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - [http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php] 
SuperAntispyware - [http://www.superantispyware.com/] 
AdAware - [http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/] 
Spybot Search & Destroy - [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html] 
Windows Defender: Home Page - [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx] 
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Were you typing in the search box on the Navigation Toolbar, or in the search box on a Google page?
Did the entire browser turn upside down, or just the page content?
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You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using
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It's just the Google homepage tribute to Pacman turning 30 today. A playable game starts up automatically, use the arrow keys to move Pacman. It's fun!
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google is block in some country. so make sure you are not the citizen of those countries. 2nd, some net admin of some organization will block google for some unsung excuse. so make sure not their reasons. 3rd, if you really could properly get into google days before, try to use "nslookup" to test www.google.com, if it cannot reply a proper ip version 4 address, then it is not the problem of firefox, it is your network connection or networking setting-up problem. so you need a network-engineer-alike buddy to help you. and how to use nslookup, if you can surf online, try another search engine like yahoo.com to get detailed usage of it.
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