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Can't search for add-ons

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mueske

I seem to be unable to search for add-ons in the Add-ons Manager. I always get the message: "Could not find any matching add-ons".

I should note that I had no problems of this sort in FF3.

I seem to be unable to search for add-ons in the Add-ons Manager. I always get the message: "Could not find any matching add-ons". I should note that I had no problems of this sort in FF3.

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Try to search in the website directly to see if it helps:


https://addons.mozilla.org/


Maybe the add-ons you were looking for are not compatible with FF4. That's why they won't show up.

I don't think it's that, since I wasn't searching for a specific add-on. Even when searching for a theme it didn't work.

It works through the site though.

I have ff 13.0.1. The firefox add-on website search also results in "no results". I had a bandu search takeover which I removed all elements in config:about and in programs uninstall, and got rid of the "web search" search engine, but still cannot search extensions, except by the field of suggested results under the search box.

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No matter what i search for on the search website it always says no results. Even if I just type the letter a. Even if i search for Adblock Plus. No matter what I type.

Well, I just have clean re-installed Win7Ult32, and reinstalled Firefox 11, Adove, Avast, etc., and while their addons show up fine, NO search for addons works. Even for a single letter like "a" or "help", "no results."

So I am stumped. I will try an update to FF13, which may be done downloading by now, and we'll see what happens next.

Any clues what to look for in the configuration settings? Anybody?

helpneeded:

See an answer posted following your comment in the following question/thread --> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/930481#answer-346226

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