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Search engines are not offerred in preferences

Allan Prys-Williams
Allan Prys-Williams
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Overnight all bookmarks and search engine settings vanished. I've restored bookmarks from backup (thanks!). When I try to set the search to google no options at all are visible in preferences/dropdown. Can I restore these from somewhere? Or at least get a list of options?

Overnight all bookmarks and search engine settings vanished. I've restored bookmarks from backup (thanks!). When I try to set the search to google no options at all are visible in preferences/dropdown. Can I restore these from somewhere? Or at least get a list of options?

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Update - I fiddled with add-ons on general principles and found that disabling Adblock Plus restored everything. The weird thing is that re-enabling Adblock did not not then replicate the problem. I now have all search functions back plus adblocking.

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Allan Prys-Williams
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Update - I fiddled with add-ons on general principles and found that disabling Adblock Plus restored everything. The weird thing is that re-enabling Adblock did not not then replicate the problem. I now have all search functions back plus adblocking.