Firefox Community Forum

I downloaded and installed Firefox. I've set up an account. But nowhere does it show me, or tell me, how to "open" Firefox and start browsing. There is no "search bar/window", just the address window at the top. I'm getting close to deleting the whole thing because it is needlessly frustrating.

I had an automatic update to my Firefox browser desktop yesterday to version 155.0. I didn't notice any issues at the time, but that was because I was using my bookmarked websites rather than looking up anything on the search bar. My keyboard input worked just fine and I had issues.

Just now, I was tried looking something up on the Firefox search bar and it seems that nothing I type into the Firefox search bar worked. I can't use commands either, I tried to copy paste and it didn't work.

why wont you just search for what i am looking for? why do i always, and i mean always, get a million bullshit answer to who knows what instead of what i ask, and to top it all off, looking at page after page i never even find what i am looking for, it is like you go around the real answer on purpose trying to annoy me again. it is very simple and i dont understand why you wont just search for what i am looking for? if i type i want to look for apples why are you showing me oranges? cherries? dog shit? and nowhere is there an apple to be found on my search results. that is just a fake example, but honestly, if i really did do that search i am sure the results would be real close to that any ways. so what is going on? apples not sending you money but oranges and cherries and dog shit are?

I thought installing Foxfire would let me set it as my default search engine! However, I can't set it as my default, and I can't use DuckDuckGo because it doesn't have password manager extensions. Why bother installing Foxfire if you can't use it for default search engine?

Firefox just updated a few days ago to version 149.0. Prior to, no issues. Now every time I enter a search term and hit enter. A new tab opens and the page is blank. It only happened after the update. Closing the tab and doing the same thing again opens a new page correctly.

I am still getting behavior, after updating to 154.0.1 (64-bit) today, where I'll do a search in the address bar (which is set to have Yahoo Search as my homepage and default browser), and simply nothing happens. I do not know what is going on. This is now the second update that has this erroneous behavior. It doesn't matter if I turn on or off the associated Yahoo Search extension, whether I go through Yahoo's own address bar or my own on the homepage, etc. It simply doesn't regularly work, anymore.

How do l get rid of yahoo which has taken over my laptop after trying to get flight tracking last week? I have always hated it and it is stopping me searching with Firefox. I am old & not too tech savvy.