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I type my search words, hit enter and then the search words get deleted so no search is performed what to do?

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StewartFloyd
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I open Firefox and then put in the words I wanted to search for. I hit enter and the search words disappeared. I repeated it several times using a variety of search words. Same thing. Restarted the computer, reset Firefox. Still not performing searches.

I open Firefox and then put in the words I wanted to search for. I hit enter and the search words disappeared. I repeated it several times using a variety of search words. Same thing. Restarted the computer, reset Firefox. Still not performing searches.

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philipp
philipp
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hello StewartFloyd, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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You are sure you used the search bar and not the address bar?