entering search yields bizarre characters

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albul53
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entering search yields bizarre characters

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When I type a search in the addrtess bar and I hit ENTER, every word becomes separated by %25252525252525252520 and obviously search cannot be performed......
see this: I typed "what is the highest building":
what%25252525252525252520is%25252525252525252520the%25252525252525252520highest%25252525252525252520building
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Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

If no improvement using Safe Mode, do you have the same problem if you create a new profile and test it with no extensions or non-default themes installed?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
and
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_ne ... on_Windows
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Re: entering search yields bizarre characters

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DanRaisch wrote:Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode">ht ... fe_mode</a><!-- m -->

If no improvement using Safe Mode, do you have the same problem if you create a new profile and test it with no extensions or non-default themes installed?
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manag ... Manager</a><!-- m -->
and
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_ne ... ating_a_ne ... on_Windows</a><!-- m -->
Dear Dan: Thanks for your kind reply, you have solved my problem... In fact it was the "yahoo search" extension that had messed it up. Although I do not know why this happened, I removed the extrension and now everything works perfectly.
Best Regards. Alexis.
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You're welcome.
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Re: entering search yields bizarre characters

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By the way, you don't need an add-on to search on Yahoo from the address bar. While you're on a Yahoo search results page, right-click the address bar and click the bottom item "Add [long name of Yahoo search engine]".
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