Firefox search bar doesn't display Google search suggestions
When searching using Google on Firefox built-in search bar no suggestions (other than previous searches) are displayed whereas when doing so using Yahoo or Wikipedia as the default search engine they appear normally. I'm using Firefox 46.0 on Linux Mint. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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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?!
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Chosen Solution
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.