How to Lock & Save Search Engine List (not though about default search engine)?
First off just to avoid confusion, this isn't about the default search engine. And this isn't about bookmarks & their folders. But with the search bar and the list of search engines within. I like to keep a pretty organized search engine list in the search bar with folders and everything. For some reason search engines often keep disappearing (appears to be random ones just disappearing). Sometimes entire folders becoming empty. I was wondering if there is any way to lock my search engines list and/or save the list?
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Quote: I like to keep a pretty organized search engine list in the search bar with folders and everything.
Firefox doesn't have a feature to sort the search engines in folders, so if you have this feature then it is added by an extension.
So if you lose the way the search engines are organnized then this is a problem with that extension and you need to contact its developer for support.
You can also check for problems with the Preferences.
My bad really.. sorry.. Should have mentioned that I considered this. Before asking I disabled the specific script... leaved it for a bit and still things went missing/deleted. Even disabled all scripts after a bit. Than I tried removing/uninstaling the script and still same result. Than for the sake of thing after your post I removed the script. That's why I haven't posted anything since. Still sadly nothing has changed and stuff still randomly going missing. I also tried reinstalling Firefox. Added bunch new search engines to list. Than bit there... bam some missing. Really strange actually
Are all default search engines still present in Manage Search Engines?
Try to delete the search.json file and possible search-metadata.json and search.sqlite files in the Firefox profile folder to reset the search engines to the default.
Firefox will rebuild the search.json file from the default search engines in the "browser\searchplugins" folder in the Firefox program folder and the searchplugins folder in the Firefox profile folder.
Hi Zaphod703,
I think some plugins (like the "add to searchbar") add the search engines but fail to save the searchengine file with the right extension in the profiles/searchplugins folder.
Try the following method and see if that is the problem. 1. Close your browser (Don't know if this is required, but just to be safe).
2. Go to your specific "profiles" folder and then to the "search plugins" folder. And check which of your search engine files end in .xml. For those that do not, manually change the extension to .xml.
3. Finally delete the search.json, search.sqlite and search-meta-data.json/search-meta-data.json.tmp files from the profiles folder.
4. Now restart your browser and check out the magic!! Hope it works for you too.
Modified by Draconius
P.S. Looks like search.sqlite is not important in FF29+. It is a 0kb file in my Win 7.
Anyway, you can save the files 'search.json', 'search-metadata.json' and "searchplugins" folder and use it to restore if anything goes wrong/ or even in any other profiles of firefox too, by just replacing them in the respective profiles folder.
Modified by Draconius