Custom Search Homepage doesn't work correctly
win7guru
useful feedback regarding products. That being said, I am having some
problems using the Custom Search Homepage on about:home after
installing Firefox version 4.0.1 on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
machine. The following are some of the issues I am having:
Problems
1. Cannot search from about:home using the input box
2. A chrome box appears every time I go to that homepage, with only
click functionality
Testing
I have tried testing out different ways to fix this, first by
disabling add-ons and then reloading the page. Both tests were
unsuccessful.
Why this is a bug
This is a bug because when I search from Google, from their homepage,
I have no problems and the page loads properly.
Screenshot
This screenshot displays the about:home location, along with the
current add-ons that are enabled, if that helps.
http://snpr.cm/obXyQB.png
Hope you can help me with this.
Ralph Fox
A. You might have bug #637639, "if dom storage is disabled when the
profile is upgraded, about:home remains broken even after dom
storage is re-enabled"
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637639>
If it is bug #637639, then the way to fix it is as follows
1. Go to about:config
2. Make sure DOM storage is enabled. To do this:
* Find the preference named "dom.storage.enabled"
* If the value is 'false', double-click it to change it to 'true'
3. Find the preference named "browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID".
Right-click on the value and choose "Reset"
4. After doing all the above, re-start Firefox.
B. I had the same problem, but in my case
(a) The fix for bug #637639 did not work.
(b) The root cause was not the same as bug #637639
This is what fixed the problem which I had:
1. Open the default home page, about:home
2. With the default home page showing, enter the following
in the URL location bar and press enter
javascript:{localStorage["search-engine"]="{\"name\":\"Google\",\"searchUrl\":\"http://www.google.com/search?q=_searchTerms_&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\"}";void(0);}
3. Re-open the default home page, about:home
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Kind regards
Ralph