Firefox 8.0 usually links to an incorrect site from Google search on the first attempt, then gets it correct on the second attempt. What's happening here? Didn't occur with previous versions of Firefox (through 3.6.x).

I can provide specific instances if needed. This seems to happen almost every time. The incorrect sites do not appear to be of any specific type.
I'm also curious why the production version of Firefox jumped from 3.6.x to 8.0. Maybe I've installed a still-buggy beta version, but not on purpose.

cor-el,
Several additional observations which may be relevant:
1. The finger of suspicion seemed to point at Firefox 8 because IE7.0 didn't display the same symptom of redirecting Google search to the incorrect website. IE7.0 appeared to continue functioning normally.
2. When I ran a full scan using Symantec 10.1.6.6010 yesterday evening it found about 30 infections. Among them was the immediate cause of my annoyance, an infection that presented as "XP Home Security 2012". May have been Trojan.Gen.2 which showed up in multiple copies. Symantec also found the Windows firewall turned off, which may have been my error but I'm pretty careful about keeping tools like that, active. It's on now. However the problem with Firefox 8 remained. I can supply the Symantec scan results if that would be helpful.
3. Then I ran MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. It found about 5 infections and cured them. That fixed whatever was causing the problem with Firefox 8. I can supply the MalwareBytes log if that would be helpful.
4. A scan this morning with Kaspersky's TDSSKiller didn't find anything.
Martt

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