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the searching bar on thunderbird only search for local emails and doesn' have the option to search on the web, I upgraded tb 24 to 38.0.1,how to enable search?

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I upgraded tb 24.0.x to tb 38.0.1 and the searching bar doesn't offer the option to search on the web, only searches for local emails, when I search on the web something on a open email it opens my default browser and NOT open a new tab on tb with the searches results. What's wrong? some configuration missing? my system is xubuntu 13.10 an tb version 38.0.1 Thanks Vladimir

I upgraded tb 24.0.x to tb 38.0.1 and the searching bar doesn't offer the option to search on the web, only searches for local emails, when I search on the web something on a open email it opens my default browser and NOT open a new tab on tb with the searches results. What's wrong? some configuration missing? my system is xubuntu 13.10 an tb version 38.0.1 Thanks Vladimir

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OpenSearch queries now always open in the user's default browser. Check the release notes for more information. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.0.1/releasenotes/

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I added a screenshot from Thunderbird 38.0.1 features page and my search bar doesn't work like that, no option to search on the web!

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