476180 - Search bar does not function

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Christian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

My Search bar in the menu does not work at all.  If I type something in and hit Enter, nothing happens.  If I type something in and click the magnifying glass, nothing happens--regardless of the search provider selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type something in the search bar.
2. Press Enter or click on the Magnifying Glass.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
It should pull up a search results page in the browser based on the search engine selected.

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Can you try this in safe mode http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode and on a new profile http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile . Can you also paste any errors you get in the Error Console with a url starting with chrome://

Comment 2

[Christian]

I opened it in safe mode and still get the error.  I do not get any errors.

Comment 3

[Christian]

I tried opening the profile manager and nothing happens.  It just opens Firefox...  I use Firefox Portable, so that may be why.  I will try to do a fresh reinstall tonight and then import the settings.

Comment 4

[Christian]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you try this in safe mode http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode and
> on a new profile
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile .
> Can you also paste any errors you get in the Error Console with a url starting
> with chrome://

I commented instead of replying.  Please see my comments.

Comment 5

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Can you try to remove the /searchplugins/ folder in your profile and the search.sqlite file? Place them in a different folder (so that you don't lose them) and see if that fixes it for you. See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile#Search_engines for more information (read the rest of the page if you can't find your profile).

Comment 6

[Christian]

I moved the profile folder and restarted firefox and it created a new profile.  Then the search bar worked.  I copied over my search.sqlite file along with my other important files and it works fine now.  Thanks for the assist.

Comment 7

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

No fix was presented here:

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