The Firefox home page will not expand my text in the search engine when I am signed into my Google account. In other words, when the top of the page is activated (i.e., the bar has tabs that read: +You, Search, Images, Videos, Maps, News, etc). Why?
Here are some screenshots that highlight this:
What is happening in the screenshots is identified to the left in black text. Basically, I don't see the search field bar. I can still type and get results, but the text I typed will not be displayed.
Please note that the Google bar at the top is activated because I'm signed in. Now take a look at what happens when I sign out of it:
I run on Windows 7 64 bit. I have the most up to date version of Firefox. I run Adblock Plus, NoScript, and Greasemonkey as addons. Note that disabling all of those does not fix the problem: only signing out of my Google account.
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That's a very interesting find. A couple people have been reporting this. But we thought it was Google breaking that page on purpose because they plan to remove that special Firefox search page. They think it's too old and want people to switch to the newer one. But I'm still not sure why being signed into Google breaks that page (and signing out fixes it), I believe Google is at fault here and needs to update the code on that page.
The new Google search page for Firefox is:
about:home
Screenshot:
http://i.minus.com/iewA9S.PNG
It's a special page built into the Firefox browser. That's why it has a weird website address that doesn't look like normal websites that use http://www., .com, .net, or .org.
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That's a very interesting find. A couple people have been reporting this. But we thought it was Google breaking that page on purpose because they plan to remove that special Firefox search page. They think it's too old and want people to switch to the newer one. But I'm still not sure why being signed into Google breaks that page (and signing out fixes it), I believe Google is at fault here and needs to update the code on that page.
The new Google search page for Firefox is:
about:home
Screenshot:
http://i.minus.com/iewA9S.PNG
It's a special page built into the Firefox browser. That's why it has a weird website address that doesn't look like normal websites that use http://www., .com, .net, or .org.
Modified by NoahSUMO
Thanks. =) That takes care of two annoying problems: the annoying bar at the top and the search field not expanding when text is inputted.
I think they do need to take a look at that page or get rid of it. A few times when I was taking screenshots yesterday, it would tell me my current version of Firefox was out of date. I'd click the link to update it and in the link it would say Firefox is already up to date.
I go back to http://www.google.com/firefox only to find that it now says it's up to date.
Anyways, thanks again.