Google has stopped working
Today, I was on Google Maps and tried zooming in and nothing happened, and the next thing I know, opening a new tab to Google home page showed a sparse page and though I could enter text in the text box, it did not show. I quit and restarted FF (30 on OS X 10.8.5) and when I clicked the NoScript icon, all tabs in all windows started reloading even though 'Suspend Tabs' was enabled. I quit and restarted several times with same result. I finally disabled and re-enabled automatic reloading of affected tabs after manually reloading a few tabs and that cleared that problem but the other problem did not go away. I emptied the cache and removed cookies for Google with 'Remove Cookies for Site' but still no change. This is what all this looks like:
http://s8.postimg.org/xyv7h81ut/Google_Build_20140605174243_Current_Session.png http://s8.postimg.org/pxbkd28h1/google_sucks_Google_Search_Build_201406051742.png http://s8.postimg.org/mp7300m79/google_not_working_with_Firefox_Google_Search.png http://s8.postimg.org/eiahup6qt/google_not_working_with_Firefox_Google_Search.png
Disabling styles shows that the search does go through.
Page still works in Safari.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Modified by PacoH
All Replies (5)
Please update to Firefox 32.0.2, Update Firefox to the latest release and then try creating a new profile, Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles
That's the last thing I would do. Usually upgrading breaks something else and my profile has all kinds of settings and add-ons that I definitely wouldn't want to have to re-create.
BTW I tried using a different profile and Google works in that so something got corrupted in this profile. Thanks so much Google newbies!
Upgrading is very important (using old versions leaves you vulnerable to security issues and known bugs), and the upgrade to 30 to 32 won't break or change anything that already works in 30.
Even if that's true I still wouldn't upgrade until this problem is solved because it would persist with the new version. Obviously something has been corrupted by Google's incredibly brilliant code and until I find a way to fix it, there's no point in doing anything else.
Here's a really bizarre twist. I usually use https://encrypted.google.com/ as my home page and that is what is giving me problems. I tried using http://www.google.com/ but 'HTTPS Everywhere' forced it to https://www.google.com/ and now that is working fine but https://encrypted.google.com/ is still broken. I can use that as my home page since it works but what is the difference between the two domains in terms of security?