Hello.

Does a google page still appear with a search result page of the things you typed, or is it another search engine? If it's the later, see this article. If it's the former, there's nothing to be done, I'm afraid, since whether you go directly to the first result of the search page or to the search page itself is up to google. I myself have found similar situations.

I am not sure if we have a preset option in mozilla to take you to the website directly by typing just the name. But as a work around you can try to hold ctrl button and enter. For example type gmail in address bar and then hold ctrl button and enter. It will take you to the web page directly

                       Hope this helps

Thanks Morbus, that helped and solved the problem. It had a bing entry in the keyword.URL entry so I reset it as the article suggested and it is all working once again! thanks very much for your advice :D

sounded good, but it did not work. I am using Windows 7, which might make a difference.

What happens if you type google in the location bar?

What is the setting of the prefs keyword.URL on the about:config page?

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.URL

You can also check these prefs:

keyword.enabled - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/keyword.enabled
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About%3Aconfig_entries#Browser.

If you use a proxy to connect then that also can cause problems.