Why ignores Firefox with update to version 21 my installed search plugins?
I just updated my browser to version 21.0 and in doing so 'lost' some of my most frequently used search engines. A look into the searchplugins folder revealed that all previously listed OpenSearch Description files are gone except those of the search engines I'm missing. Trying to reinstall some of them, I realize most of the missing search engines are for sites that themselves do not provide them like http://www.wikimindmap.org and http://www.goodreads.com so I must have gotten them form third-party sides but in previews versions they just worked fine.
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
Note that if this is the searchplugins folder in the Firefox program folder then you now need to place the search engines in the browser\searchplugins folder to make Firefox find them.
You can move search plugins from "<install directory>/searchplugins/" to <install directory>/browser/searchplugins/ to make Firefox find them again.
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May be compatibility issues.
Firefox Addon may not be supported by Firefox 21
Can you clarify what you mean when you write this:
A look into the searchplugins folder revealed that all previously listed OpenSearch Description files are gone except those of the search engines I'm missing.
Which search engines are still there (if any) and which are gone?
Are you still running your default profile or did Firefox create a new profile?
In case of the latter you may have an "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop in case a reset have been done.
- Add to Search Bar: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/
Before version 21.0 the searchplugins folder contained an xml OpenSearch Description file for every search-engine installed, defaults (e.g. google and wikipedia) and later added additional ones.
No, I wasn't sicked with a new profile but have other profiles for specific tasks and since you mentioned them I had a look.
My default profile acquired a searchplugins folder, none of the other profiles has, it contained the non-default engines Firefox still listed.
Coping the leftover Description files also in the profile solved the missing engine problem. However, I lost the tweaking I had on some of the default search engines.
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
Note that if this is the searchplugins folder in the Firefox program folder then you now need to place the search engines in the browser\searchplugins folder to make Firefox find them.
You can move search plugins from "<install directory>/searchplugins/" to <install directory>/browser/searchplugins/ to make Firefox find them again.