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Firefox 118.0 released (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope someone here has a suggestion/solution.

I've been having this issue with DuckDuckGo and Firefox, for the past few days now, where if I search using the search bar, it shows an error which says "the page isn't redirecting properly." This happens only when using this search engine. For every other search engine, e.g. Google, Bing, etc there are no issues.

I've tried clearing cache, temporarily disabled all cookies, but still no luck.

Any suggestion /solution please?

[–] taladar 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried using the DDG search URL manually? I mean as in the exact URL it calls when you use the search engine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hiya, yes, I did that just now. And I got the same error. The DDG search via address bar/ddg website works on edge... It's just not working on Firefox...

[–] taladar 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, what I would do next is probably use that URL with something like wget or curl (a much simpler HTTP client basically).

Usually redirect errors are not caused by the browser because the browser is almost not involved at all in redirects, it just calls the URL returned by the server in the Location header.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Will wget/curl help, since DDG seems to work in Edge?

Suddenly, I have a bad feeling its some Add-on which is blocking, probably. Let me try and isolate it...