887704 - The Search button in the Firefox home page does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Tanay Mathpal]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2013-06-27 at 10.47.08 AM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

Go to Firefox Home page (about:home)
Enter search string in the search box
Click Search button


Actual results:

Nothing happened


Expected results:

Search should have been executed

Comment 1

[Tanay Mathpal]

This issue is not unique to this version of Firefox. It was occurring in previous versions as well.

Comment 2

[Loic]

There was bug 866254 about a similar issue, but with PB mode enabled.

Could you test with a fresh profile, please:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Anyway, it's not the 1st time I hear this problem.

Comment 3

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Tanay, please try the suggestion from comment 1.

You could also try running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode to see if you still reproduce the issue.

Comment 4

[Tanay Mathpal]

Loic, I tried and it worked fine. I am able to search using from the home screen now. My problem is solved but the bug should still be open, isn't it?

Comment 5

[Loic]

Try to reset your current profile:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems

It could be an issue with an extension too.

Comment 6

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I can't reproduce this issue with the latest Aurora build, on Mac OS X 10.6.8 in 32-bit mode.

Closing this, but please reopen the bug if you can still see this problem. Thanks!