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Google Form redirection error

πŸ“… 2019-Apr-22 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ cookies, error, google form, redirection ⬩ πŸ“š Archive

Problem

A team member shared a Google Form for me to fill out. Strangely that form URL could not open in Firefox. It would not load with this error:

The page isn’t redirecting properly
An error occurred during a connection to docs.google.com.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

Solution

I did not have any setting in Firefox to disable or refuse some cookies. So that error was wrong. But it gave a hint that the problem might be caused by cookies.

I went into the Firefox options and deleted all cookies involved with the URL google.com. There is no need to delete all cookies, just those that have this URL. Once I did that, the Google Form URL opened correctly.


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