Firefox won't display "Google Search."

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foxtrot048
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Firefox won't display "Google Search."

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I recently updated to FF 3.5.5 and now when I access Google in "Classic View" only the name Google appears and not the search boxes, "Google search" and "I'm feeling lucky". These two boxes are no longer visible and the search engine is useless unless I switch to igoogle. Of course it works normally as it should in IE, but I don't want IE as my browser. Who knows what else is missing from other web pages. Any idea what has happened? I noticed several posts regarding google and FF, but all seem to be different problems. I am using a limited user account. I just checked the admin account and FF and google are working ok. Why doesn't it work in the limited user account? :(

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Re: Firefox won't display "Google Search."

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Does the same thing happen if you launch Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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What's Classic View?
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Re: Firefox won't display "Google Search."

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DanRaisch wrote:Does the same thing happen if you launch Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode


Exactly the same. The "Google Search" and "I feel lucky" are missing from Google Classic View. Google Classic View is the one that you see on most people's computer where it says "Google" in big letters with the two search boxes under "Google."

Remember, FF works fine in my admin account, but not in my limited user account. I think all this started about the time of the last FF update to 3.5.5 :cry:

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Re: Firefox won't display "Google Search."

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Did you check the URLs listed in about:config?
Open about:config and put the word "Google" in the "filter" text block, see what comes up.
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