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Mozilla Firefox 78 brings search bug, fix coming soon
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Once in a while a newbrowserversion introduces one or two unwantedbrowsing issues, which is now the case withFirefox78. The update brought a couple ofimpressive changes and features, such as accessibility tweaks, privacy protection, and more.
But it also broke search, making it impossible for affected users to use its integrated search engines like Google andBing.
The good news is thatFirefox78.0.1, which goes live soon, will fix the search issue.
The Firefox 78 search bug
Shortly after the release ofFirefox78.0, a userreporteda search issue that resulted from updating to the latest stable version of thebrowser.
All search engines are gone; list of one-click search engines is empty now. Auto complete in the address bar doesn’t work any longer. Search function on the start page doesn’t start a search any longer.
It appears that affected users no longer see any of the popular third-party search engines thatFirefoxoffers by default. Usually, thebrowserlets users customize their search experience by adding their favorite search engines, for example, Amazon and DuckDuckGo.
Apart from thesearch issue, it seems that thebrowser’s address bar isn’t working any more. Moreover, the start page’s search function is defective right now.
Engineers atFirefoxappear to have discovered the root cause of the issue. They’ve identified a couple of bugs that point to a malfunction in the local database that the search service utilizes.
The team started working to resolve the problem shortly after it made it to the Bugzilla forum.
For some reason the local database that we use to store some data is not working. Unfortunately our search service has just switched to using that local database, and as a result isn’t working properly.
Firefox78.0.1 should address the search problem anytime now.
Have you received theFirefox78.0.1 search fix? Let us know if it works by leaving us a message in the comments section below.
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