When you enter a search term in the Firefox location bar and press Enter, Firefox will per default do a "I'm feeling lucky" Google search and redirect you to the first result that matches your search term. This behaviour can be changed by a number of add-ons. If you'd like to restore the previous default behaviour, please follow these steps:

1. Enter about:config in the Firefox location bar and press Enter.
2. You should see a warning that making changes to the Firefox configuration can be potentially harmful to Firefox's integrity. Click the I'll be careful, I promise button to continue.
3. In the Search box at the top, enter keyword as the search term. You should see a few remaining items, one of these is keyword.URL. It should be bold.
4. Right-click on the keyword.URL setting and select Reset from the dropdown menu.

Now you're done. Please report back if this fixes your problem. Thanks in advance!

You can find more information about the Location bar search feature in the Location bar search article.

hello paul, do you have a file named user.js present in your profile folder? if so rename or delete that file - it is used to override settings from pref.js...

How to fix preferences that won't save

I o have that file but it does not contain an over-ride to the value i am changing. I renamed file anyway, changed value and problem still occurs :-(

The re-setting of keyword.URl does not reslove the problem either

ok, this preference is getting updated by firefox on each start automatically, so what you're observing is actually expected behaviour: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone

do the other suggestions from https://support.mozilla.org/questions/934580 work to address your original problem?

install the Search Reset Tool. & see if this helps.

Thanks for the update paul, try installing the add-on I just indicated & post back with the results.

Madperson : I tried all the suggestions in questions/934580 but the issue was not resolved. Note that local storage - search engine was set to null but even after resetting as shown tthe problem still existed.

Dbelica82: Installed search reset add on - did not resolve issue.

All: However, I shut down my machine, after all the above actions. FF came up minimised. Screen size was set to reduced. - reset , tried again - it all worked !?!

Cannot pinpoint what worked. Thanks to both for your suggestions and help

regards

At-least it's working now & issue is resolved =0 Glad something whichever answer it was helped you to solve your issue.