I have the same problem as the previous poster and have wasted valuable hours searching for a solution to no avail. I have installed a battery of useless plugins, followed all the instructions suggested here, step by step, and the problem persists. I've tried this both on a PC and a Mac and the results are the same. The only way I can see the page I am looking for without it redirecting (in exactly the same way as AnonmousUser describes in the previous two posts) is by accessing the Google cached version.

I don't have a PhD in computing and many of the potential fixes to this that I have found through more general searches are couched in terms that make me glaze over and run for a coffee break.

This problem seems to be quite widespread - how difficult could it be to devise a one-click fix that doesn't require any coding or other complications that the non-tech-savvy simply don't understand?

I've been experiencing the exact annoying problem for the last 2 weeks, just like the way the users above describe it. I don't know what exactly caused it (nobody seems to do :-), although I can tell that it started right after uninstalling an unwanted Softonic-Eng7 Toolbar, installed with some other software. It may have some relation to the problem, it may not.

It was just strange that it occurs only with some few sites that I use, not with others. I only want to add that while the blank page kept loading, there was a "loading data from gostats.com" message in the FF status bar. When I hit the same site with IE, it just crashed!...

I tried the solutions mentioned above (running FF in safe mode, DNS changing and flushing), nothing worked, the problem persisted. Until now, that I installed the NoScript add-on, found here: http://noscript.net/

It prevents some script loaded with the page from running, and the redirection to the wyciwyg page just doesn't happen!!!

It obviously doesn't cure the "disease", but it most surely eliminates the "symptom", so it's a good solution until something else more efficient is found. I recommend it, as it may be also be helpful with other issues caused by malware script in some sites.

I'll be glad to know the cause of the "wyciwyg problem" some day by a FF developer, if they had the interest to deal with it. And hopefully the future versions of FF won't suffer by it any more... :-)