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Hello! I have upgraded to Firefox 20. When I have private browsing enabled, I cannot search. Please advise. Thank you!

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Hello! I have upgraded to Firefox 20. When I have private browsing enabled, I cannot search. Please advise. Thank you!

Hello! I have upgraded to Firefox 20. When I have private browsing enabled, I cannot search. Please advise. Thank you!

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In what way and where can't you search?

  • searching via the location bar (pref: keyword.URL)
  • search bar on the Navigation Toolbar
  • search bar on the about:home page (pref: browser.search.defaultenginename)
  • other search bar (e.g. added by extension)

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window or otherwise make changes.

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Thanks for your reply! Strange, I can search through the title bar but not the search box. In safe mode I can search through both. Searching through the title bar is fine for now.

If it works in Safe Mode or with all extensions (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) disabled then try to find which extension is causing it by enabling one extension at a time until the problem reappears.

Close and restart Firefox after each change via "Firefox > Exit" (Windows: Firefox/File > Exit; Mac: "Firefox > Quit Firefox"; Linux: "Firefox/File > Quit")