Firefox is redirecting - almost constantly - even in safe mode. Google Chrome doesn't. Do I need to quit using Firefox or is there a solution?

When I do a Google search and then click on a link, it almost always takes me to a nonsensical, non-sequiter site that has nothing to do with the targeted site. The word "redirect" appears in the tab briefly. For awhile running completely in safe mode helped but it wasn't clear to me at all the relationship between the check boxes and the "Make Changes and Restart" and "Continue in Safe Mode" buttons and when I chose the 'Make Changes' I lost all bookmarks and the tab toolbar. But did not have redirection problems. When I imported my bookmarks and personal tab tool bar, even now that I run in 'Safe Mode' I still get redirected. Malwarebytes and AVG find nothing new currently although Malwarebytes has a long list of quarantined trojan downloaders, fake alerts and a couple ROOTKIT.TDSS files it discovered 5 days ago.

When I do a Google search and then click on a link, it almost always takes me to a nonsensical, non-sequiter site that has nothing to do with the targeted site. The word "redirect" appears in the tab briefly. For awhile running completely in safe mode helped but it wasn't clear to me at all the relationship between the check boxes and the "Make Changes and Restart" and "Continue in Safe Mode" buttons and when I chose the 'Make Changes' I lost all bookmarks and the tab toolbar. But did not have redirection problems. When I imported my bookmarks and personal tab tool bar, even now that I run in 'Safe Mode' I still get redirected. Malwarebytes and AVG find nothing new currently although Malwarebytes has a long list of quarantined trojan downloaders, fake alerts and a couple ROOTKIT.TDSS files it discovered 5 days ago.

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