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google search result links not opening

Jeremy Rutman
Jeremy Rutman
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If I put a search e.g. 'quantum computing course pdf' into the top browser bar , or into the google search text field at google.com, I get a list of results. Those results, when right- or left-clicked, don't open. If I right-click and open in new page I get a blank page with url along the lines of

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjFvbTJ96XyAhVRUxUIHQ8-B6QQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhomepages.cwi.nl%2F~rdewolf%2Fqcnotes.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2u5QfsBwPW7a9j-uq2BAlZ

If I put a search e.g. 'quantum computing course pdf' into the top browser bar , or into the google search text field at google.com, I get a list of results. Those results, when right- or left-clicked, don't open. If I right-click and open in new page I get a blank page with url along the lines of https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjFvbTJ96XyAhVRUxUIHQ8-B6QQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhomepages.cwi.nl%2F~rdewolf%2Fqcnotes.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2u5QfsBwPW7a9j-uq2BAlZ

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jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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I cannot replicate the issue, everything opens for me. see screenshot

Have you tried in safe mode? Firefox safe mode: Click the menu button, click Help and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled…. Firefox will start up with the Firefox Safe Mode dialog.

Can you try downloading a separate copy of Firefox to a folder and run it from there to compare? I've stop using my distro version months ago because I kept losing tabs.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Jeremy Rutman
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Restarting in safe mode (actually, troubleshoot mode in my version, menu button-> Help->Troubleshoot Mode) doesn't solve it, downloading into a dedicated folder does. Both versions are 90.0.2 64 bit ubuntu, I blv the nonworking version was preinstalled in my stock version of ubuntu 20.04 ; this version runs from /usr/bin/firefox