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Navigation Bar and search bars does not function.

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I have reset, re-installed, created a new profile, deleted preferences files within the profile folder, as well as the localstore.rdf file. i have booted up firefox in safe mode as well. nothing works. The navigation bar refuses to function.

I have reset, re-installed, created a new profile, deleted preferences files within the profile folder, as well as the localstore.rdf file. i have booted up firefox in safe mode as well. nothing works. The navigation bar refuses to function.

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Hello, try to delete the search.sqlite and search.json file in the Firefox Profile Folder, and check it again.


thank you

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These files did not exist under my profile folder. I just did a clean install so there isn't much data there.

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here is a screenshot

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There appears to be a problem with Firefox 20 with UNC paths when using roaming profiles on network servers.

This is currently investigated and tracked via this bug report.

  • Bug 857672 - Address Bar not working (roaming profiles;UNC path support OS.File)

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