Are you allowing Google to use javascript? It will not do that without javascript.

thanks ........... can you confirm where i check that javascript Google setting .

.......... just found it is enabled under tools options

You are not running any kind of javascript control such as NoScript or YesScript?

Thanks Finitarry, please tell me where to check for and javascript controls. i cant think i am as nothing has changed since it was working ?? any other ideas ?

Note that the www.google.co.uk/webhp?complete=0 site uses autocomplete=off.
So Firefox won't offer to suggest terms that you used before unless that autocomplete=off is removed.

thanks cor-el, can you confirm should 'Auto-complete on' be ticked or not ticked on the Greasemonkey drop down menu. however i have tried ticked and not ticked and still no sugestions as i type in google ???

any more suggestions would be really appreciated. thanks

You can paste this code in the command line in the Web Console (Web Developer > Web Console;Ctrl+Shift+K) to verify that no input elements have autocomplete=off;

var A='autocomplete',c=0,e,E,f=0,T='\n',e=document.querySelectorAll('input['+A+']');
for(j=0;E=e[j];++j){T+='['+(++c)+'] '+(E.name||'#'+E.id)+' ('+(V=E.getAttribute(A).toLowerCase())+')\n';}
alert('autocomplete: '+c+T);

Thanks Cor-el

That looks scary stuff . can you talk me through that in detail as to what it will do etc > thanks . Cheers Steve g

The Web Console is one of the development tools that are included in current Firefox versions.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools

That console opens at the bottom of the Firefox windows and has a command line that makes it possible to evaluate JavaScript code in the context of the current web page.

See also "The command line interpreter":

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Web_Console