Comments on: Google 403 and Firefox

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By: Arun Saba

Arun Saba — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:09:50 +0000

Firefox – 403 Forbidden Error in google search- How to remove.

1. This is due to cookies / some tracking cookies. First of all Clear all cookies & Try.

2. If you use Google chrome also in your computer:
Go to File search in your computer & Search for “cookie” – in your computer
(This may be related to Google chrome)
Delete it.

By: Beginnercode.com

Beginnercode.com — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:30:43 +0000

Google captcha ?

I was playing the very last puzzle in the google Da Vinic Quest game. When I logged into my personalized google home page I saw this warning and captcha request:

Of course my first attempt failed, can you tell if thats a zero or an ‘O’ …

By: LouCypher

LouCypher — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:54:17 +0000

Try search for Powered by Phpbb 2.0.6..10.

By: ^Lestat

^Lestat — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:12:11 +0000

Well, I haven’t had this happen since the day I posted this. Not quite sure why. I do suspect that Marco was correct in the fact that it is triggered by particular search terms.

By: Header

Header — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:11:47 +0000

Hi – got the same problem on a mac network using Safari today – it is not keyword specific as I tried ant and evry word, the most banal (banana) to pieces of code and tags.

It seems to be a cookie thing… try this.

Remove all cookies, then try to search again.

On the first attempt, you will be refused, type in the letters to continue, and then check your cookies.

You’ll probably find two new google cookies set to expire in 2038. remove them, and you’ll have the error 403 problem again.

This does seem to be linked to network access, as my home machine, (same ISP as my employer’s network), does not give the same problem.

What do these particular cookies do that is different from previous ones?

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:34:45 +0000

I just saw this for the first time using Safari so it’s not Firefox-specific:

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:domain.co.uk&num=50

I imagine they’re trying to cut down what must be millions of requests from virii, worms and other automated scripts.

By: Malcolm White

Malcolm White — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:46:30 +0000

I’m not sure it is a firefox problem. I get it with both Firefox and IE but only when I’m using the company’s network. If I use my home computer it doesn’t happen. I also notice that it only occurs after about midday.

By: Marco Pacchiarini

Marco Pacchiarini — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:32:48 +0000

It’s not related to a browser[1], but to the search string containing a specific keyword (AND, in my cases, a numeric value in another parameter, mostly > 10). So I think it’s just some Google filter working improperly. (Interestingly, the 2 words I found causing the error are both forum-related.) Then I ran some tests with the following strings which will result in the 403:

http://www.google.ch/search?q=forum&num=11
http://www.google.ch/search?q=viewtopic.php%2010

…while these will work as expected:

http://www.google.ch/search?q=forum
http://www.google.ch/search?q=foobar&num=20
http://www.google.ch/search?q=forum&num=0
http://www.google.ch/search?q=forum&foobar=12

Strange anyway.

BTW the TLD (.ch) does not affect the results.
[1] Tested with FF 1.5, IE 6 and Opera 8.5