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Why is the address bar not allowing search anymore?

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LKHutch225
LKHutch225

I have always searched on Firefox by just typing what I want into the address bar. It would bring up the Google results automatically. It just suddenly stopped working-like I did it while searching for one thing and ten minutes later opened a different tab and it didn't work anymore. When I do try to search from the address bar the screen says "Unable to Connect...Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 'search term'. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

I have always searched on Firefox by just typing what I want into the address bar. It would bring up the Google results automatically. It just suddenly stopped working-like I did it while searching for one thing and ten minutes later opened a different tab and it didn't work anymore. When I do try to search from the address bar the screen says "Unable to Connect...Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 'search term'. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."

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n0diamond
n0diamond

I don't know the developers' answers but I have to say that this is good. Sometimes when intending to type a password into a web form, the cursor moves to the address bar and I don't notice until I hit the Enter key and get a list of Google matches instead of my e-mail or whatever. It's more common for the cursor to move from a password field to a username field because the page finishes rendering after I already started typing my password, but sometimes the cursor moves to the address bar for unknown reasons.

cor-el
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Did you try to close and restart Firefox or reboot the computer?

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

You can consider to use a keyword search and add a keyword to the Google search engine via "Manage Search Engines" in the search bar search engine menu.