Google in FF does not search; others do / transitory

[woodsmoke]

Now...HERE is a kewl konundrum for the people who actually know things...not moi! lol

Firefox worked perfectly last night.

I have not shut down, restarted, added anything on, taken anything away...nada....

But....

Firefox will not "do a search" when using Google as the search engine.

It will "do a search" when using any other engine from the drop down list such as yahoo or bing, or whatever.

In other words, I started FF, typed in "Kubuntu forums" sans quotes and got "document not found"...

Ok, thought the net must be down or something... tried rekonq and it works...

Went back to FF went through all of the preferences to see if something was discernable, nada.

Tried Yahoo, and Bing, to search for:

Kubuntu forums, got it
"dog" got it
"cat" got it

Tried restarting, etc. but no joy....Google search engine in FF does not work.

Is this juicy or what! lol

comments?

WOAH....THIS JUST IN!!!!!

as a last try, I tried again to use Google in FF and....

now it works....five minutes later

JUICY OR WHAT!?

comments

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

Well exqueese me all to hedoublehockystics...

AGAIN.... google search does not work...

maybe some kind of problem with Google itself?

woodsmoke

[woodsmoke]

Well, nowww it seems to consistently work, had an update so maybe that was it. dunno.

woodsmoke

[Buddlespit]

Google hates you

[woodsmoke]

lol probably! lol

woodsmoke

[jlittle]

Next time, you could try clearing the FF cache. Some piece of adware goosed my google search screen a few months ago. Searches still worked (I think) but I got an ad instead of the "Google" banner. Clearing cache and history fixed IIRC.

Regards, John Little