Bookmarked item stays in home page seach bar. Won't clear. How Fix?
On the Firefox home page search box one of my bookmarks has suddenly appeared there in grey. It can not be deleted in the usual ways (highlight/delete, backspace over, etc.) but if something is typed it disappears. BUT, when Search is activated the search goes to the search on the bookmark item's page!
Reloaded, restart, shut down restart have not worked. How to fix?
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Just change the search engine that is selected in the Search Bar.
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What is your home page?
Are you talking about the about:newtab page with the 3 rows and 3 columns of thumbnails?
Can you attach a screenshot?
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You can use the SearchReset extension to reset some preferences to the default values.
Note that the SearchReset extension only runs once and then uninstalls automatically, so it won't show on the "Firefox > Add-ons" page (about:addons).
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Here's the screen shot.
A new feature in Firefox 23 is that all 3 search boxes (Location Bar, the about:home Search Container, and the Search Bar) are connected the the Search Engine which is selected in the Search Bar. That AddALL new appears to be a search engine, not a Bookmark; that Search plugin is available from here - http://www.addall.com/Plugin/newhelp.html
And when I installed that AddALL search plugin, it appeared in the about:home Search Container when that Search Engine was selected in the Search Bar, just as in your screenshot.
That help page looks largely outdated: Modified: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:47:21 GMT
I keep the snippets disabled (browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl = ""), so I not not confronted with such 'offers'.
You are all speaking tech to a non- technical user This has always been my Firefox home or opening page. I have no clue how that got there. I do not want every search term I enter sent to Addall for a book search! I just want it off.
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Just change the search engine that is selected in the Search Bar.
Thank you. How?
I found "restart with add-ons disabled". Is that what I should do?
See:
The search engine that is used on the location bar and on the about:home page is the search engine that is selected in the search Bar on the Navigation Toolbar.
You can install the Keyword Search extension to specify with search engine to use for the location bar and which search engine to use for the about:home page via the Options/Preferences windows of this extension, accessible via the about:addons page.
- Keyword Search: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyword-search/
Thank you so much. Nothing I had ever noticed or used before. And I've not a clue how Addall got there! But, Firefox has been glitchy lately. Again Thanks.
You're welcome