Do you use any anti-tracking add-ons which might be blocking Google suggestions?? If you are, please try turning them off as a test.

Assuming that isn't it...

Is it possible your build of Firefox does not have the regular Google search plugin that retrieves suggestions??

To inspect built-in search plugins, you have to dive into a somewhat obscure internal file. If you use the U.S. English version, you can paste this into the address bar and press Enter to load it:

resource:///chrome/en-US/locale/browser/searchplugins/ 

If you use a different language: Start from the following and then drill down into your language, /locale/browser/searchplugins:

resource:///chrome/

When you find google.xml: Click that file to view it in a Firefox tab, and check whether this line is present:

<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q={searchTerms}"/>

Is that there?

If not: You might want to install a different Google search plugin and use that one instead. There is a wide range of choices on this page: http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

If it is there: Hmm, why is that not working?!

This is a shorter URI to inspect the built-in search engines.

• resource://search-plugins/

jscher2000 said

Do you use any anti-tracking add-ons which might be blocking Google suggestions?? If you are, please try turning them off as a test. Assuming that isn't it... Is it possible your build of Firefox does not have the regular Google search plugin that retrieves suggestions?? To inspect built-in search plugins, you have to dive into a somewhat obscure internal file. If you use the U.S. English version, you can paste this into the address bar and press Enter to load it: resource:///chrome/en-US/locale/browser/searchplugins/ If you use a different language: Start from the following and then drill down into your language, /locale/browser/searchplugins: resource:///chrome/ When you find google.xml: Click that file to view it in a Firefox tab, and check whether this line is present: <Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q={searchTerms}"/> Is that there? If not: You might want to install a different Google search plugin and use that one instead. There is a wide range of choices on this page: http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html If it is there: Hmm, why is that not working?!

The only file shown in "resource:///chrome/en-US/locale/browser/searchplugins/" was a "list.txt". However using the site that you suggested (http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html) I added that version of google which works fine. I suppose my problem had something to do with adding Google form the site Linux Mint pointed (https://www.linuxmint.com/searchengines.php). Anyway thank you so much for helping.