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stevenv

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I do apologise if this has already been discussed but I'm not sure if I'm the only one suffering. It seems that Google is causing me no end of frustration. I'm running Vista SP2 and FF 3.0.11 and often when I search from the toolbar, I have to stop the page loading and search again as it just sits on "waiting for www.google.com". I also frequently have problems when clicking on results in the search: the page again remains on the waiting for Google status and I have to terminate page loading and click the link again for it to go through. I'm experiencing similar issues at both home and work, on home and work desktops as well as the notebook that I use at both locations. Both have ADSL lines where at home I use WebAfrica as my ISP, the office has quite a complex network setup so I'm not able to provide much information. I'm not sure if this is connectivity related or something on my machines that is causing it. We've had some connectivity issues at work but as my problem is more universal I don't think that's related.

Anyone else experienced this?
 
Same thing happen to me sometimes, then I have to copy/past the link to get to the site. Very annoying. Haven't happened recently though.
 
BTW, @Valante, is there a way to get bing as an option in the FF search toolbar monety?
 
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The Firefox toolbar search uses google.com which first redirect to google.co.za. Most of the time these dont point to the same ips(even while both are not local), but google.com always redirect to google.co.za if you connect from a South African ip, and it is this redirect that sometimes fail I assume.

If you go to www.google.co.za this problem should happen a lot less if not rarely ever.

Also, isn't bing.com a Microsoft initiative?
 
This seems to be a problem with Firefox only. All my other browsers seem fine.
 
stevenv said:
@Solitude: So you also experiencing the same thing?
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Yeah I got the same problem. Only in Firefox though and it's not the latest Firefox. I'll quickly check the version... version 3.0.10.

I've been using Chrome lately though and there are no problems. Maybe updating to the latest Firefox will fix the problems.
 
I've got the same problem across most of the Google services (Gmail, Google reader, etc) and it does seem to be a problem with Firefox as far as I can figure out. I suppose I'll use Chrome until the problem gets sorted out.
 
stevenv said:
Anyone else experienced this?
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Yes, exact same issues. I need to reload my page 1 in 3 times with Google.co.za queries. Mac OSX - FF & Safari, have tried every suggested fix to no avail.

I've noticed when clicking on a search result, instead of being forward straight to the link, Google detours the command to the USA first before releasing the link and forwarding you.

I don't think it's always been this way, the reason no doubt is to collect more data from us, for ad-sense etc.

I'm not sure what the solution is. You could say google.co.za should run from a local cache, but it seems all international Google sites are also routed the same way.

grrrr
 
1. Go here and download the 'Google ZA' or 'Google ZA - Pages from South Africa' search plug-in near the bottom of the page.

2. Type about:config, then search for keyword.URL and change the value to http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&btnG=Search&meta=&q=
or do a Google Search with your preferred search provider, copy the URL and put the q variable at the end of the URL, paste this into the keyword.URL field.

Should sort out this issue.
 
w.m said:
1. Go here and download the 'Google ZA' or 'Google ZA - Pages from South Africa' search plug-in near the bottom of the page.

2. Type about:config, then search for keyword.URL and change the value to http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&btnG=Search&meta=&q=
or do a Google Search with your preferred search provider, copy the URL and put the q variable at the end of the URL, paste this into the keyword.URL field.

Should sort out this issue.
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In laymans terms, what will this achieve?
 
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