A keyword entered in the address bar always redirects to searchportal.information.com. Why?
Firefox 3.6.4 on Centos 5.5. If i put a keyword in the address bar rather than a URL then i am always re-directed to "searchportal.information.com". I have uninstalled Firefox and manually removed all files/directories i can find. After re-install the problem is still there. If i disable dns and put a keyword such as "sourceforge" then the status bar shows "Looking up searchportal.information.com". There is no reference to this URL in about:config and changing keyword.URL has no effect. I run Firefox on Fedora, XP and Vista without this problem. What is going on?
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
== Problem only started recently.
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Hello Nick.
Hopefully this support article is what you need:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Searches+are+redirected+to+another+site
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1874045 - My ISP is by-passing Firefox's Location bar search ..... You may have an ISP that automatically redirects you to a search page if a DNS look up fails. That takes the control from Firefox to do the normal keyword search like a Google I'm Lucky search. In such cases you need to contact your ISP and ask for a DNS server to opt-out of that feature.
same issue...only instead of me entering a keyword in the location bar, I'm entering the valid URL of a local intranet website (no .com, etc in the URL). http://computername/ This always worked fine before JUST recently! NOW it uses the computername as a search word (?domainname=computername) sent to http://searchportal.information.com I haven't been able to find any configuration reference to searchportal.information.com and it is a REALLY BIG problem that it will not allow me to get to the real intranet website!! HELP!