Firefox problem -Need help

Tawcan · Post by **Tawcan** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:15 am

Just updated my Firefox to 1.5 today and I found that dictionary.com is no longer in the search box. So I tried adding search engines but now I have blanks in the search engine field.

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2243 ... copy.0.jpg

Any idea how I can fix this?

Thanx!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:30 am

Dont have 1.5, cant see the image.

blanks in the drop down menu to select an engine?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:33 am

your photo isnt working...

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:36 am

Joe wrote:your photo isnt working...

Copy and paste the link:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2243 ... copy.0.jpg

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:42 am

Jim wrote:Copy and paste the link:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2243 ... copy.0.jpg

That did it.

Tawcan, how did you add them?

Tawcan · Post by **Tawcan** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:28 am

I went to add search engine, browsed through more search engines, found dictionary.com, then added it.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:36 am

Do you have any theme installed from an older FF install or that one?

Dunno, I dont see anything on it.

Tawcan · Post by **Tawcan** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:37 am

Yep i have older theme installed from an older FF install...

Let me try uninstalling them.

Tawcan · Post by **Tawcan** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:38 am

nope same thing.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:39 am

Maybe try posting on mozillazine. No clue.

Tawcan · Post by **Tawcan** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:06 am

Tried a clean install of Firefox and then started from the beginning. No messing up this time.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:03 am

Tawcan wrote:Tried a clean install of Firefox and then started from the beginning. No messing up this time.

Yep, that's always the best thing to do. First backup your bookmarks and such with the Mozilla Backup Tool then uninstall and manually delete all the Firefox directories then install the new version and use the backup tool to put everything back.

stevebakh · Post by **stevebakh** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:46 am

If you're going to do that, wouldn't it be easier to simply copy the bookmarks.html file from your mozilla/firefox profile directory and then simply move back into the new profile directory after you re-install?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:24 am

Yeah if that's all you want to backup, with this tool you can backup other options as well.