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Awesome Bar search not working properly

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When I try to search from the Awesome Bar, instead of searching with Ixquick (which I set in about:config), it searches the currently active engine in the Search Bar. I have Firefox Portable 23.0 (by PortableApps.com) and run it on Windows 8.

When I try to search from the Awesome Bar, instead of searching with Ixquick (which I set in about:config), it searches the currently active engine in the Search Bar. I have Firefox Portable 23.0 (by PortableApps.com) and run it on Windows 8.

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That is a new feature in Firefox 23.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0/releasenotes/