Comments on: Firefox Search Bar Frustrations

By: Iris

Iris — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:19:32 +0000

Oh those pesky add-ons. That's exactly what it was. I went through them all, one by one, and it finally started working when I disabled NewTab URL (one of my favorites, of course).

By: Ellen

Ellen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:56:59 +0000

Perhaps it's clashing with some other Firefox extension? Try disabling some other add-ons and see if the functionality comes back. That's what we did when my husband's entire newsfeed randomly disappeared in Facebook a few weeks back. It was a recalcitrant greasemonkey script…

By: Iris

Iris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:21:50 +0000

Yep, tried that a couple of times over the last week. No luck.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:48:35 +0000

I had what sounds like a very similar problem with my search box. I found a suggestion to to into my profile directory and delete (I actually just renamed first) the file "search.sqlite" — that did it for me.