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web addresses always open in a google search

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When I type a known web address into firefox it only opens in a google search box instead of taking me to the web site requested.

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Every time Firefox opened

== about 2 weeks ago

When I type a known web address into firefox it only opens in a google search box instead of taking me to the web site requested. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == about 2 weeks ago

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       Application Basics
     
     
     
       
         
           
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           Firefox
         
           
         
           
             Version
           
           4.0
         
           
         
           
             User Agent
           
           Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
         


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       Graphics
     
     
     
       
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