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Why does Firefox redirect my Google search bar queries to the Google homepage?

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Whenever I type a query on the search bar (set to Google), the browser would load the results - then a second later, it redirects the results page to the Google homepage.

How can I prevent this from happening? I would like the results page to stay, as per normal :(

Whenever I type a query on the search bar (set to Google), the browser would load the results - then a second later, it redirects the results page to the Google homepage. How can I prevent this from happening? I would like the results page to stay, as per normal :(

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Fyi, Google Chrome doesn't have this problem.

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OK, it's the OptimizeGoogle extension. Disabled, and it subsides.

But I never had this problem as recently as last week, even with that extension enabled.