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why suddenly would my search bar no longer search?

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when I log on to the internet and type in key words in the search bar, nothing happens when I click the search button. Suddenly my search button is not working.

when I log on to the internet and type in key words in the search bar, nothing happens when I click the search button. Suddenly my search button is not working.

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hello jamielt63, does it work when you choose a different search engine in the searchbar?

Search bar - add, change and manage search engines on Firefox

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hello Phillip, The tool bar search box works fine, no matter which search engine I choose, the Mozilla home page search box is the one that is not responding when I click search. I have tried changing search engines but still no response.

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in this case please see if installing the search reset addon (a restart of the browser is necessary afterwards) can resolve the issue: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchreset/

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Current Firefox versions use the default search engine (pref: browser.search.defaultenginename) to set the search engine that is used on the about:home page.

Check the browser.search.defaultenginename pref on the about:config page and make sure that it is set to the default value Google.

  • browser.search.defaultenginename

Currently selected search engine:

  • browser.search.selectedEngine

If you do not keep changes after a restart then see: