Google search results link back to Google's front page

My Firefox 9.01 under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 seems to have a problem with the links in the results (hits) from Google. When I click on a link, I am directed to Google's front page.
Example:
I enter the search phrase 'occupy wall street demands' into Google Search. One of the hits I get is Wikipedia's entry on Occupy Wall Street. The URL is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
When I click on this hit, I come to a page with this URL:
http://www.google.com/webhp?emsg=NCSR&noj=1&ei=oAosT9jsCcL64QS2xLCrDg
which shows Google's front page.
However, if I right click on the link ans select "Open link in new window", then Firefox correctly opens the new window with the Wikipedia article.
Other browser on my computer does not have the same problem. I have also emptied Firefox's cache and it did not solve the problem.
What's going on here?

I noticed this happens less often (or not at all, maybe) when you are not logged in with your Google account. Are you logged in to Google, or maybe Google+ even?
When I'm logged in to Google+ and click a search result after using the searchbar in Firefox, I get to see the Google homepage. Clicking the Back button brings me to the page I visited before using the search bar, not back to the search results.
It's definitely an annoying workaround to log out just to be able to click search results, but it could help isolating the problem.
Also, you can open the search results by middle-clicking them and opening them in a new link. Not a solution either, but less annoying than restarting the browser. ;)

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