I know you have another long thread going. Can you catch us up on what you've been doing to fix your Firefox and whether there are any other issues in case this one is related?

Meanwhile, if the search box doesn't have the search engine drop-down and doesn't search if you type in it and press Enter, you may want to "reset" your toolbars as described in this article: Changes to toolbars and window sizes are not saved.

That is an interesting idea but once opened there are no instruction on how to select Google as a search engine. In fact there are no suggestions at all.

As for my other tread I have lost everthing on my Bookmark tool bar. Am reloading it from an old file one by. Thought I had the Failed remember password issue resolved but after I left the computer for a couple of hours I lost the ability to have save password fill in on the main site I was interested in.

once opened there are no instruction on how to select Google as a search engine

I thought the problem was that the box was completely broken. In that case, please do the full toolbar reset as mentioned in the article.

I did the reset and it had no effect on anything.

Why when I did a Restore to an earlier date did i\I lose everthing relating to the Bookmark tool bar and the search engine in the nav. bar. I thought restore was a save way to go back in time.

Try to delete search.sqlite and search.json in the Firefox Profile Folder.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_search_or_add_new_engines

You may need to reinstall Firefox if the default search engines aren't in the searchplugins folder in the Firefox program folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\)

There were 2 searchplugin folders there. One was empty and the other (2) had search engines in it. I deleted the empty one restarted the computer and still no search engine appears in te box. If I open the box with Manage Search Engines I get an empty drop down. How do I insert Google? Googles is one of the search engines in the current folder but how do I get it to the tool bar?

Please feel fre to comment but I will be out for the weekend. See you Monday

What is the exact name and location of the searchplugins folder that you kept?

I have this problem as well. The problems started when I upgraded to Firefox 13.0.1.

I reset the toolbars but I can't get anything in the search bar except Amazon.com. I can't add search engines. And the folder with the search engine .xml files is there and seems to have the full range of engines in it.

When I click on the 'Manage Search Engines' option I get sent here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search-tools/ and I can't see how that helps me.

Please help. I rely on the search bar and it's not until firefox is broken that I realise how much I rely on your lovely program.

Try to delete search.sqlite and search.json in the Firefox Profile Folder.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_search_or_add_new_engines

Thanks, that appears to have fixed it. I'd already tried deleting them a few days ago with no results but I thought I'd try it again so I could report back and like magic the options are back.

I appreciate your help. :)