1672200 - After Updating my firefox to the Mozilla Firefox 82.0, I found that the homepage is not working, The only thing I see is a blank space, all the suggestions in address bar is also not working.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1672164

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[yadavgulshan542]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2020-10-20 20-53-53.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open a new tab

Actual results:

I encountered a total blank space after I opened the new tab after updating firefox in my linux desktop, and the suggestions in address bar are also not being displayed, not even autocompleted...
I reinstalled the firefox and also gave a restart, but the problem still persists.

Expected results:

I should open me a new tab with all my bookmarks and the address bar should have work flawlessly, suggestion me all the addresses based on my history...

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Are you on Linux Mint?

If that's the case, can you try setting mint.use-system-region to false in about:config?

Comment 2

[yadavgulshan542]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #1)

Are you on Linux Mint?

If that's the case, can you try setting mint.use-system-region to false in about:config?
Yes I am a linux mint use, but how do you know that, is this bug is linux mint specific ?
By the way setting mint.use-system-region to false doesn't worked for me...
I restarted the firefox too, but nothing happened

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

We're seeing reports about broken search (no search prefs in settings), and they're caused by code added to the package by that distribution (bug 1672164). See also https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=333281

Some users reported that setting that key to false fixed their problem.

I assume in preferences you don't have any search engine either? I would suggest to try the official version from mozilla.org, and follow the instructions above to reuse the existing profile.

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Looks like there should be an updated package with the issue fixed.