Turn off Redirect Notices Permanently
So, I am getting these notices about Redirects.
I've now spent about an hour trying to turn these off. I've changed the accessibility. blockrefresh setting (it's set to false, and if set to true, the notice changes and its much worse. I've changed the setting in preferences advanced to turn off accessibility entirely. I've tried by disabling all add-ons.....nothing works.
Is this a bug? How can it be fixed? Is the only option to go back to Chrome?
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Hi meaganmargaret, that page is on a Google URL; Firefox just shows the page Google asks Firefox to show.
How are you getting to that page? Are you using a news feed?
There are some add-ons to "clean" links (remove the redirects so they go directly to a site) if you can't find another solution.
So if I go to the Google News page and hit that URL, I get immediately directed to the post. In FFox, if I'm at the same Google News site, and I hit that URL, I get this redirect notice, which means I have to click on it to continue to the page where the post is.
So, it works in Chrome (it also works in Safari), but it doesn't work in FFox......
Let's see whether we can get on the same page about the steps to reproduce the problem.
Let's say I go to Google News and run a search for almond butter. This is the stripped down URL for the results page:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=almond+butter
When I Ctrl+click several results to open them in new tabs, all of those tabs load the destination page directly, and not a redirect page. I tested in a regular window and a private window, but I was not logged into my Google account, if that makes any difference.
Note: on Mac, it would be Command+click instead of Ctrl+click.
Are you logged in the Google?
Clear the cache and remove the cookies from websites that cause problems via the "3-bar" Firefox menu button (Options/Preferences).
"Clear the cache:
- Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove the cookies" from websites that cause problems.
- Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> "Use custom settings for history" -> Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Sorry, just realized you are using a different site. For example, Technology news:
https://news.google.com/news/headlines/section/topic/TECHNOLOGY?ned=us&hl=en&gl=US
When I follow links from that page, there is a quick transition through the Google outbound tracking redirect page, but Firefox doesn't pause there. I'm not sure why yours is pausing.
When I intercept the URL of the redirect page for an example article, it has numerous parts:
To make that more readable, I split the four parameters onto their own lines:
https://news.url.google.com/url ?sa=j &url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fnews%2F359009%2Ffacebook-google-vets-form-coalition-to-fight-tech-addiction &uct=1517865002 &usg=OIfopbiuqtqLXs4dtX8tP4SED4Y.
If I delete off that last parameter so the link looks like this:
Then I get the redirect notice page. If you look at the URL in the address bar when you get the redirect notice page, is yours missing the &usg= part toward the end? Is it missing any of the other parts?
No, that didn't work.....check out my png......
Does it make any difference if you use a private window, to bypass cache and cookies from your regular window? You can usually right-click (on Mac, Ctrl+click) the links and choose Open Link in New Private Window from there.
If you use automatic private browsing ("Never remember history") then this won't make any difference.