Hi, it seems that [0] which was done on QA_4_2 and released in 4.2.4, is causing problems to some users [1].
Maybe this kind of change should be postponed to 4.3 and reverted for 4.2.5?
[0] https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/7cba81de271d62bdf93ded759870...
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4469