Why is the search function disabled in the linux version of Firefox 48? Kind of the reason for having a web browser , no? You guys must be trying to get people
Firefox 48 has no usable search function without going to already established { in tabs} google site. In Preferences, the search panel is not accessible. Firefox 47 was working fine. This is not progress.
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Hello Tommy52, please try to change in about:config the next preference
- distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale
from "data:text/plain,distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale=en-GB" to "en-GB"
any luck ?
thank you
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Solution choisie
Hello Tommy52, please try to change in about:config the next preference
- distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale
from "data:text/plain,distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale=en-GB" to "en-GB"
any luck ?
thank you
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0 == Not a Mozilla build of Firefox.
Firefox 47 was working fine. This is not progress.
You might want to take that up with Ubuntu which built your Firefox version.
Thank you for your help . your fix solved the problem and "Search" is now functional in preferences as well as in tabs. Tom