Firefox stalls loading Google search promoted items

Using Firefox 24.0 in Windows 8 Pro 64.
If I click on a promoted item (yellow background) in Google search results, both left click or rightclick/ new tab, the item deepends and does not load (blank tab and a URL related to Google).
Other items in the results page load correctly.
Checking with IE10, the promoted items load correctly.
I have tried clearing the cache and cookies with no effect.
Can anyone suggest a setting that I have incorrect?
Thanks

Hello,
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