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Cannot start Firefox, blocked by google, message is "we are sorry, but your computer may be sending automated queries".

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Google is blocking Firefox, and the message on my screen is: "We're sorry...but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now".


This happened

Every time Firefox opened

No problems until just now, i didn't make any changes that i am aware of as compared to when everything was working fine.

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2)

Google is blocking Firefox, and the message on my screen is: "We're sorry...but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now". == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == No problems until just now, i didn't make any changes that i am aware of as compared to when everything was working fine. == == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2)

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"Clear the Cache": Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now" "Remove the Cookies" from sites causing problems: Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clearing_the_cache and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies