The seach box has stopped working?
The search function is no longer working? Hitting return or clicking on SEARCH does nothing.
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- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.5
- np-mswmp
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- npsitesafety
- Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator version:0.1.44.23
- Version 3.10.2.10212
- RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
- RealNetworks(tm) RealPlayer Chrome Background Extension Plug-In
- RealPlayer(tm) HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- RealPlayer Download Plugin
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_37 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- The plugin allows you to have a better experience with Microsoft SharePoint
- Google Update
- Game Treat Widget
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking Rich Internet Application Support - Plugin
- SiteAdvisor
- MindSpark Toolbar Platform Plugin Stub for 32-bit Windows
- GEPlugin
- 5.1.10411.0
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
- Exent® AOD Gecko Plugin
- NPWLPG
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
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Are you referring to the Search box on the about:home homepage>
Or where?
What is the value of the browser.search.defaultenginename on the about:config page?
That should be Google.
Try to reset some preferences to the default with the SearchReset extension:
Note that the SearchReset extension only runs once and then uninstalls automatically, so it won't show on the "Firefox > Add-ons" page (about:addons).
If you do not keep changes after a restart then see: