Does this occur only with a one-word search? If you put a single word in the location bar, Firefox usually will first see whether www.yourword.com is a valid address. This can be intercepted by your ISP and redirected to the ISP's preferred search page. However, with a multi-word search, Firefox normally will direct it to Google.

You might be able to change your ISP's search behavior, but how exactly to do that would depend on the configuration options your ISP has given to you.

As for losing history after 24 hours, if you have set Firefox to remember a lot of history and you have not set Firefox to clear history when it closes, then some external program might be clearing your history. System "cleaners" and security software sometimes do that.

It does it no matter what I type in. Seems to remember it if I google it first, but I still can't just type ti in and hit enter. I must arrow down in the pull down menu.

I'm guessing this is the router. I'm currently on wi fi at school and the problem is gone. Anyone had similar problems with a Belkin router?

If your ISP automatically redirects in case of a DNS look up failure then you need to contact your ISP and ask for alternative DNS servers that do not redirect.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking

• http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1874045 - My ISP is by-passing Firefox's Location bar search
• http://text.broadbandreports.com/forum/r23022337-Re-Bresnan-Hijacks-Your-Browser

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_websites#DNS
• http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Your plugins list shows outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.

• Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_14 for Mozilla browsers

Update the Java plugin to the latest version.

• http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Java Platform: Download JRE)