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Suddenly, when I search the web with a topic search term, e.g. "thrombin", I get the error message: 'The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) is being used.' Can you help me resolve this problem?

Suddenly, when I search the web with a topic search term, e.g. "thrombin", I get the error message: 'The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) is being used.' Can you help me resolve this problem?

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Hi, is this a problem with submitting a search through the main address bar in Firefox? Assuming so, could you check your search engine setting and see whether it is the one you want it to be, and not something that got injected by an add-on. The following article has the steps:

Change your default search settings in Firefox

If the problem is with a search form inside a website, maybe there is something unusual about how it generates its results. However, it's hard to know without checking the site.

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Hi, is this a problem with submitting a search through the main address bar in Firefox? Assuming so, could you check your search engine setting and see whether it is the one you want it to be, and not something that got injected by an add-on. The following article has the steps:

Change your default search settings in Firefox

If the problem is with a search form inside a website, maybe there is something unusual about how it generates its results. However, it's hard to know without checking the site.